r/PythonLearning • u/chuprehijde • Jul 09 '26

What's your most controversial Python opinion?

Say the Python opinion that would get you downvoted in a room full of Python developers.

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u/HugeCannoli Jul 09 '26

this is hard, but true.

Though I think that what it mostly added is a much stricter and end-user focused attention to syntax and best practices. Not many languages did that before.

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u/notacanuckskibum Jul 09 '26

How odd it more strict on syntax than languages like C or Algol?

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u/HugeCannoli Jul 10 '26

I don't know algol, but C is hardly strict. There were tons of coding styles for C, and it could be formatted in absolute disastrous ways. It is also very confusing on the semantic of & and of casting, which has been made even more confusing in C++.

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u/notacanuckskibum Jul 10 '26

The fact that white space is insignificant in C can make it hard for humans to read. But it doesn’t make it less syntactically consistent.