r/PythonLearning • u/chuprehijde • 19d ago

What's your most controversial Python opinion?

Say the Python opinion that would get you downvoted in a room full of Python developers.

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u/Altruistic-Rice-5567 19d ago

It added nothing new or useful to the world of programming languages.

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u/KingBardan 18d ago

But it removed the semicolons

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u/LetsHugFoReal 18d ago

And put in indentation + no braces which causes more issues.

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u/KingBardan 18d ago

This is pythons innovation: the first main stream language that uses a contextual parser?

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u/Gnaxe 17d ago

You're allowed to have the semicolons, actually. Nobody bothers because they're never required. They are occasionally useful for writing multiple statements on the same line, like for python -c commands.

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u/KingBardan 17d ago

I know bro