> If you ask a Python developer about [private instance variables], they’ll respond with: “don’t access the instance variables of another class, lol”. > only i

> If you ask a Python developer about [private instance variables], they’ll respond with: “don’t access the instance variables of another class, lol”. > only in Python will the difference between tabs and spaces cause the interpreter to have a heart attack. > The question of making a variable constant came up on Stack Overflow and a Python developer’s advice was “just don’t change it”. All of these critiques seem to amount to: If I do something dumb, then Python will break on me. While I respect that other languages have protections, it's sort of like asking "why doesn't Python have static types?".