i resist saying that i hate python because that implies that i don't hate aspects of basically all alternatives (or all that are popular anyway)

like with everything else these days, it's about living with it and try to make the best of the good parts of it

i remember getting told in the 00s that i would get used to and love the whitespace-based block definition, and boy i hate it now more than ever with 1000s of hours spent looking at and coding in python

but it is what it is, for whatever reason it has become a must in many particular industries a lot like Java took over some earlier on although it seems to be fading, and javascript is a must in others

it really isn't just about programming languages that these days you either learn to live with some massive annoyances and practices you may hate, or withdraw entirely from society

Oh, don’t get me wrong i don’t refuse to work with it or anything so extreme. These days I end up writing code in any of a handful of languages.

Given the choice though I typically don’t teach for python unless there’s an obvious reason to (some good library for my task or a team i am helping is only python people / devops etc)