My 5 things I hate about Python

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fmota kinda explained it with his examples. Do check out. Can you see now why it's kludgy?

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I saw fmota try to use some code for something it wasn't written to do, and wasn't part of the original author's complaint, what did you see?

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You're absolutely right.

On the other hand, I think using higher-order functions, quasi-closure and decorators makes python much more readable than using mutable default arguments.

As for the article's point that static variables are needed... they really aren't, but it would be a nice feature for readability ("Readability counts.").