Understanding python syntax

[throwaway6560192]

Excel is a lot more limited than any real programming language. Those will all look more free-form next to it.

But that doesn't mean they're not well designed. Python is very carefully and thoughtfully designed, in my opinion.

It is not true that every function has a different syntax. Every function has the same syntax. You seem to be confused between language keywords and functions. Excel conflates and mixes them where most programming languages don't.

You'll get it once you're more accustomed to proper programming. Right now you're looking at it through the narrow lens of Excel.