To me, the concept of “pythonic” has lost credibility for all the reasons you mention. It used to be that “duck typing” was a point of pride, something everybod

To me, the concept of “pythonic” has lost credibility for all the reasons you mention. It used to be that “duck typing” was a point of pride, something everybody learned. Now if you’re not type hinting, I think most people consider it bad practice. There’s a bajillion ways to do everything. We use print() now, but not raise(). f-strings or .format()? Maybe c-style string formatting? How about dict formatting? Is adding strings ever permissible? Didn’t we used to use single quotes? I thought that was pythonic too. Pythonic doesn’t exist. What’s popular is all there is. I say let’s bring map, filter and reduce into fashion.