Article content The patching machine has some pretty serious problems and faces an uncertain future on Greater Sudbury streets. Try refreshing your browser, or Greater Sudbury’s much-hyped Python 5000 faces an uncertain future Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. “Through 2025, we had very limited use of the Python,” Rocca told The Star in an interview. Of those, only 1,500 craters — approximately 1.35 per cent — were patched using the Python 5000. The Python 5000 can carry five tonnes of asphalt at a time, so capacity was not the issue.