To an extent, sure, and that can apply arbitrarily to lots of things. The Python community, by and large, embraces "easier to ask forgiveness than permission"

To an extent, sure, and that can apply arbitrarily to lots of things. The Python community, by and large, embraces "easier to ask forgiveness than permission" and some features in the standard library use exceptions for their flow control. It's much more likely to run into overuse of exceptions in Python than not.