I think part of the "surprise" comes from Python being so versatile. I mostly use it for prototyping numerical programming in a research setting, i.e. like MATL

I think part of the "surprise" comes from Python being so versatile. I mostly use it for prototyping numerical programming in a research setting, i.e. like MATLAB. So I'm occasionally surprised by the integer division stuff, because I want to just treat my numbers as numbers and be done with it. OTOH, when I'm doing systemsy stuff, it doesn't surprise me at all.