That said... pretty small gripe in the grand scheme (no pun intended, maybe) of things. When I've written projects in Python, I've enjoyed it.
I'd argue it's the inconsistency. Some things are methods, some things are functions. The name choices are also a bit boneheaded (eg. "dumps"). It's a lot like PHP in these regards.
Ruby, on the other hand, is beautifully designed. But it gives you a bazillion ways to skin a cat, and people love to be "clever" with their cat skinning. In those cases, I appreciate the utilitarian approach and "zen" of Python.
My biggest gripe with Python, though, is the totally 80s feel of the version and package management. It's one of the worst experiences in my daily engineering life. I can never know if complex ML code will work on my system without thirty minutes of patching things up.
I'll gladly use Python to get work done or Ruby for small websites. But I'm looking for a new daily driver for scripting that learns from the last thirty years of mistakes. (Modern language, sensible packaging/dependencies/version switch, optional static typing, and optional static binary output.) Nim, perhaps?
Yet Python is a dynamically typed language and translating it into many statically typed languages requires and almost complete rewrite.
Translating it to Nim is surprisingly easy in comparison.
> When I want the length of an array
len(array)