[t_fatus]

I'm quite surprised by some of these reasons:

- 1 & 2: just use virtualenv, js has its own version manager too (nvm) which is very useful. This is one of the reason why only python2.7 is included in OSX, since most of seasoned python devs not use it. usr/include vs usr/local/include in cpp are not easier to use / understand.

- 3: my opinion is this forces you to write readable code, in which you don't have to ask yourself where the scope starts / ends

- 4: since import use dot notation you just need to follow the path until you find a file and in this file the corresponding function. Or read the doc. Or use an IDE with autocompletion. Looking a .h files in c sometimes lead to using a wrong function judging only by its name.

- 5: They are called "list" because they are lists, not arrays in a C sense (size not fixed)

- 6: multiline strings are a mess indeed, but python3 handles them all in utf-8 (one of the reasons why it broke backward compatibility)

- 7: just like js, making them 2 of the 3 most used languages. Understand the difference between pointers and references is harder to grasp for a beginner to just remind modifying the arguments of one method is dangerous unless you know what you're doing

- 8: there is the from ... import ... which allows you to avoid this while being explicit

[kemitche]

> 3: my opinion is this forces you to write readable code, in which you don't have to ask yourself where the scope starts / ends

I agree with this so much. I've never looked at someone's python code and had a moment's confusion about where a particular function ends. On the flip side, I see plenty of randomly/confusingly indented C/C++/C# code.