Why Python Sucks. Index

Syntax

• Why Python Lambda is Broken and Cannot be Fixed (2013)
• The Fate of Lambda in Python 3000 and Scheme v300 (2010)
• The fate of reduce in Python 3000 (2005)
• Python, Lambda, Guido: is Language Design Just Solving Puzzles? (2006)
• Python String Sucks
• Python Syntax Soup: x in y
• Python Syntax Problem: Comment and Backslash
• Syntax: Python Indentation vs Nesting (2013)

• Docstring Convention: Python vs Emacs Lisp (2013)

Semantics

• Python Length Function Not Method, and the Idiocy and Arrogance of Python Guido Von Rossum

• Python's List Index Problem (2024)
• Python Language Design, the Idiocy of Pop Method

• Python Sucks, Function vs Method
• Python: Why List Comprehension is Bad (2010)
• Python 3: Map with Side Effect Doesn't Work If Result is Not Used
• The Idiocy of Python's Function Parameter Specification
• Python Scope Complexity, Shallow Copy, Deep Copy, Circular List, and the Garbage Underneath Computer Languages
• Python: dictionary.clear vs Set Dictionary to Empty
• Python: Get Function Arity
• Python: Copy Nested List, Shallow Copy vs Deep Copy
• Python: Function Argument Default Value Wrong
• Python: Append String in Loop
• Python Problem: String Methods, Functions, Slashes, Backslashes

unsorted

• Why python is the worst intentionally idiotic programing language i've ever seen. (2026)

• python version 2 vs 3, command name inconsistency, and .py filename extension ambiguity problem (2026)

• Python For-Else Loop Sucks

Xah Talk Show

• python cult, and why python is the worst programing language today, and python import syntax problem
• https://youtu.be/fsVRPwKOuPc?t=1669
• Xah Talk Show 2022-11-10 Emacs Lisp Write a Python Mode from Scratch, and Why Python Sucks

• Xah Talk Show 2019-03-23. Emacs, Emacs Lisp Demo, Language Design, Why Python Sucks, Guido's Problems