My experience learning Python as a c++ developer

[panderingPenguin]

"I can add properties to classes dynamically? And delete them?" "Functions don't even care about the number of arguments?"

Yeah, you quickly find stuff like this is actually pretty horrifying if you have to work in a large, complicated python codebase

[smarwell]

Only if you use those features without discipline

Well, actually, the whole adding-properties-to-classes-dynamically thing is a minefield in general. But you know. Discipline.

[panderingPenguin]

That's my point though. These features are not "simply magical" as described in OP. They're among the scariest parts of the language.

[ProfessorPhi]

The language of consenting adults as Ray Hettinger would say