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** (added comment) subjective - could it be you're trying to write Perl in Python? I.e. python is really trying to discourage you from writing those long blocks and investigating stuff like list comprehensions | ** (added comment) subjective - could it be you're trying to write Perl in Python? I.e. python is really trying to discourage you from writing those long blocks and investigating stuff like list comprehensions | ||
* Poor Unicode handling--strings are ASCII by default, and are Unicode only if you prepend them with u, like u"string". | * Poor Unicode handling--strings are ASCII by default, and are Unicode only if you prepend them with u, like u"string". | ||
** (added comment) subjective - once you know how it works and how to use it, it's actually really well implemented IMO - see [http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about-python-and-unicode All About Python and Unicode] | ** (added comment) subjective - once you know how it works and how to use it, it's actually really well implemented IMO - see [http://boodebr.org/main/python/all-about-python-and-unicode All About Python and Unicode] | ||
*** (added comment) Ruby and Perl handle Unicode far better. | |||
* No standard way of installing modules like CPAN. | * No standard way of installing modules like CPAN. | ||
* Python has no equivalent to Perl's "taint" mode. | * Python has no equivalent to Perl's "taint" mode. (This is nothing to do with strong typing, and is about validating data by what it says rather than because it's a string rather than an integer) | ||
* Poor error reporting | |||
== Ruby == | == Ruby == | ||