You seem to have missed the entire purpose of the post. It's not to give "best practices" but to unveil gotchas and peculiarities in the language implementatio

You seem to have missed the entire purpose of the post. It's not to give "best practices" but to unveil gotchas and peculiarities in the language implementation and internals. >A goal of Python is to be as readable as possible, not to conform to some spec. This doesn't even make sense.