You have obviously previously been relying on a context-sensitive IDE. Those things exist for Python too, or you can turn a text editor like Emacs into one by i

You have obviously previously been relying on a context-sensitive IDE. Those things exist for Python too, or you can turn a text editor like Emacs into one by installing various packages. It's true that there are limits to what they can do, since Python will let you do some pretty funky stuff, but you were nowhere near those limits. Regarding the missing API documentation: Python programmers will often have a Python shell open and just experiment with stuff in there with instant feedback. For instance, I know one project where someone decided to write a relatively large Python plugin for Excel. One essential component was a button that put up a shell so you could experiment with the Excel COM API live. So you could access the sheets and write stuff into cells and see Excel update them. If you write Python like you write .NET or Java code, you'll probably only see the downsides. Getting a taste of the upside requires adjusting your coding style. It's going to take some time. And yes, there are of course downsides, language design is a trade-off.