This is why we love Python! Yeah, I know we should do boring stuff for production and not get creative, but creativity is the real joy.

> Prefix (as well as postfix) operators are used in languages like LISP/Scheme, and have the nice property of not requiring parenthesis

This reads quite funny because Lisp is famous for its parentheses! The missing bit is parentheses aren't required but only in the binary case. Lisp supports n-ary operators hence why it needs parens.