I was just under the impression the python community has a long tradition of getting things done while being far from experts in the language, i.e., a far great

I was just under the impression the python community has a long tradition of getting things done while being far from experts in the language, i.e., a far greater proportion of non-professional programmers who just use python to make one part of their real job go smoother. This leads to a very high tolerance of people new to the language, and to misunderstandings. Ruby and perl seem to have more typical professional programmer types is all.