Finally a real reason. A lot of the stuff above was complaining about issues where Python is a lot worse than R, about non-issues or with a fundamental misunde

Finally a real reason. A lot of the stuff above was complaining about issues where Python is a lot worse than R, about non-issues or with a fundamental misunderstanding of the language. I'd given up hope of seeing a real weakness named as such :) There is bit64 and doubles being used as 53bit pseudo-integers - but if I needed 64bit integers, R wouldn't be my first choice, definitely.