I don't think the author of TFA makes the case he's trying to make at all. And mind you, Python isn't my first or favorite language, and I'm not particularly biased in terms of defending Python. My language of choice is Groovy in most contexts.
Anyway, this all seems like a lot of nit-picking to me. Yes, these "issues" are real, they just don't amount to much. And basically every other language has an equally long list of similar nits you could pick.
If the author had called this "Reasons Python Sometimes Annoys Me" then I could get behind that. But none of this, IMO, reaches of the bar of establishing that the language "sucks".
Right, Python is better than most in terms of nitpick-ability. It's one of the only mainstream languages to make it big without corporate support due to that.
Anyway, this all seems like a lot of nit-picking to me. Yes, these "issues" are real, they just don't amount to much. And basically every other language has an equally long list of similar nits you could pick.
If the author had called this "Reasons Python Sometimes Annoys Me" then I could get behind that. But none of this, IMO, reaches of the bar of establishing that the language "sucks".