I have a simple curiosity: why Python has much keywords, and some builtin types and methods, that are different from the other languages? What is the rationale?
I'm referring to: * `except` instead of `catch` * `raise` instead of `throw` * `self` instead of `this` (I know, it's not enforced, but it's a de facto standard and some IDEs like PyDev gives you an error if you declare a non-static method without `self` as first parameter) * `dict` instead of `map` * `list.append()` instead of `list.push()` * `str.strip()` instead of `str.trim()` * `True`, `False` and None instead of `true`, `false` and `none` (they seems classes) * and furthermore much abbreviation, like `str` instead of `string` and `len()` instead of `length()`, that seems to contrast with the readability goal of Python. I don't ask about `None` instead of `null` because I suppose here it's a matter of disambiguation (null, in many languages, is not equal to null). -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
