What's bad about Python?

Because I'm learning it, almost done through the tutorial, and it looks great.

Approaches the verbosity of Java, wtf?! Nevermind the fact that a Java project will have ten times the lines of code. Python has been around for years, during which developers have really figured out the most practical (not necessarily pure) ways of doing things. As a result of this, IMO it's by far the most readable language of the bunch.

Not that I'm advocating __this__, but at least Python doesn't break old code with every new release. Same reason here. and-or's been around longer than Python and far from perfect, very true. 'self' has spawned great controversies, sure, and there's plenty of good justification for and against it widely available. I've never seen _privateAttributeConvention go wrong in actual code. For that matter, ranting about inconsistencies in the syntax is largely a waste of time; go write your code. Once you get down to that, Python just works.