I don't understand what's getting you all bent out of shape about this. Unexpected emergent behaviors are extremely common in programming language design. Even

I don't understand what's getting you all bent out of shape about this. Unexpected emergent behaviors are extremely common in programming language design. Even when carefully planning every language feature, unexpected interactions can and do occur, sometimes these things are not ideal. I am not very informed about Python's history here, but it's not far fetched that this behavior was not planned and just happened due to unexpected interactions of other features. Why would Python be immune to this? Are Guido and the rest of the Python contributors 1000x devs that can see infinitely far into the future and never make mistakes? All of Pythons quirks were actually planned from the very beginning I guess.