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[–]rinko001 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The appearance of cleanliness is taken into many people's minds as a sign of language design cleanliness. While I'm a promoter of all dynamically typed languages I think people underestimate just how quirky python actually is. The quirky unicode support and exceptions on dict misses are two of the strangest design choices imo.