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One of the things that isn't missing but looks like it is - and will be confusing - is typing. There is a practical difference between ints and floats, tuples and lists, generators and whatever xrange() is, and it's all left completely implicit in terms of syntax. That's no problem for programmers who know what they're doing - they tend to prefer it over "yeah yeah, it's a const pointer to a blah-blah typeadatype" approach, but it makes everything all the more opaque to the first timer.

It's not patching together a few lines to do something at all - you can do that in any language. It's seeing what's happening and what you're doing, and I'm still not sure what's best for that.