When Python picked up that reputation it was considerably smaller, with the likes of Java and C++ as the most prominent competition. Also it's easy to think tha

When Python picked up that reputation it was considerably smaller, with the likes of Java and C++ as the most prominent competition. Also it's easy to think that newer fancier features added over time don't really matter for learnability, since the old style mostly still works; but they do matter some, since when you make a mistake, the interpreter doesn't know that you had no intention of straying from a simpler sublanguage.