Python's long in the tooth right now, but the first few years the whitespace thing was the source of much cursing and gnashing of teeth. edit More to your poi

Python's long in the tooth right now, but the first few years the whitespace thing was the source of much cursing and gnashing of teeth. edit More to your point, though. I would never choose a language for a project because it is strongly opinionated on such things. However, when choices lead to an opinionated language I find the feature a positive rather than negative edition....even if I find a particular decision annoying at first.