I sat down to learn Python a few years back to add another language to my tool belt. I ended up hating it in the first 10 minutes and haven't really had the need to use it since. Why? My sample program looked perfect. It was indented properly without braces - losing braces was the first concession the language asked me to make - but it wouldn't run because of one line which was indented several places. Three of those indents were 4 spaces each, but one of them was a tab. The interpreter chose not to tell me this fact. It merely said my program had illegal indentation or something. Looking at it I didn't see any problem. Solving this mystery was an unnecessary waste of 10 minutes of my life and I decided on the spot that Python was too opinionated for my tastes and not helpful at all. Then I read the designers of Python are forcing coders to change their "print" statement when upgrading Python 2 to Python 3 and think my first impression was right.

In terms of Boy Scouts, Python is the kid with strict dietary requirements who insists the other boys eat his crappy food, just because.