Readability might be a fair criticism but syntactic sugar is a weird one, there's not a lot of syntax at all. Multiple ways to do something is a feature, and t

Readability might be a fair criticism but syntactic sugar is a weird one, there's not a lot of syntax at all. Multiple ways to do something is a feature, and there's definitely multiple ways to do things in python: metaclass vs class decorators lambdas vs explicit functions (basically the same thing as your no hash example) map/reduce/filter vs list/generator comprehensions