> A goal of Python is to be as readable as possible, not to conform to some spec. The goal of every programming language should be to conform to a spec that is

> A goal of Python is to be as readable as possible, not to conform to some spec. The goal of every programming language should be to conform to a spec that is as logical and consistent as possible. This prevents bugs by saving tons of mental effort having to worry about and look up edge cases, and not always catching them all. I don't mind so much if end-user applications have bugs when they're used differently from intended, because their use cases are narrow. If Word crashes when I put 10,000 images on a single page, well obviously it's not built for that. But I mind very much when programming languages have bugs, because they are the layer on top of which we build so many other things! The use cases for a programming language are almost infinitely wide. For a language as widely used as Python, we should be testing it out like QA testers. All these inconsistencies add up to tons of bugs when you expect something to follow a consistent pattern and it doesn't.