Some time ago, Tom Christiansen wrote about the "Seven Deadly Sins of Perl":
http://www.perl.com/doc/FMTEYEWTK/versus/perl.html What design mistakes, traps or gotchas do you think Python has? Gotchas are not necessarily a bad thing, there may be good reasons for it, but they're surprising. To get started, here are a couple of mine: - Python is so dynamic, that there is hardly anything at all that can be optimized at compile time. - The behaviour of mutable default variables is a gotcha. - Operators that call dunder methods like __add__ don't use the same method resolution rules as regular methods, they bypass the instance and go straight to the type, at least for new-style classes. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
