It's funny you interpret that as an attack. What do you perceive as hostile in my post? It's just part of the Python philosophy. Whether you consider this a good or a bad thing is up to you. Personally, I consider it an advantage, though I used to think different.

It is true the blog post does not mention Python. However, if you should pick one "opiniated" language in the same niche as Ruby, this is the one most people would pick.

Python is by design a one way to do things language whereas Perl is There is more than one way to do things.

'There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.' from http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ a sentiment that is re-enforced by the python community and even used to pitch python as an easier language since there is only one (right) way.

Yow! Someone's a bit touchy. He was comparing Ruby with Python, which is probably valid.

The whole "opinionated" thing is a bit silly really. Ruby isn't all that opinionated, as the GP poster says. Why Python people would get their bee in a bonnet over "opinionated" code is somewhat beyond me. After all, Python is a language where whitespace is significant...