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What are the main weaknesses of Python as a programming language?

by prog on 1/20/11, 3:45 PM with 1 comments

• by leon_ on 1/20/11, 4:39 PM

  The top answer gets many points right IMHO. The only reason I use Python for scripting is because of its superb standard library (which other language comes bundled with a SMTP server?).

  But as soon as something with a similar powerful library would come along I'd switch. Writing scripts in Python is not pleasant for me. Alone quickly moving stuff out/into loops/if clauses is just a major PITA. Where in C I would comment out the 'if' line in Python I have to additionally de-indent the block of code.

  It's the small quirks and minor annoyances that sum up and make Python really not fun to me.