[progmetaldev]

Before I saw your comment, I had "overlooked" that these were presented as beneficial features, rather than just curiosities. As someone just learning Python, but familiar with other languages, I can only hope that if I start using Python in production with other developers they take the most obvious route (or use a comment as to why they would be relying on this type of behavior).

I chose to learn Python because it seemed to be the easiest to read, which to my mind meant working in a team would lead to easier discovery and understanding. Then I see articles like this, and wonder if I'll have a lot of footguns to watch out for where the code isn't as clear as it seems.

[erikvdven]

I fully agree on this! Like the Zen of Python says: explicit is better than implicit. You should not expect your teammates know all "special" behavior of the language and if you can write it more straightforward, you should in that case. Guess Kyle mentiones the same about JavaScript in his books. You are right about that. Perhaps that should be a nice addition to the post. I do believe though, it is good to be familiar with this behavior in case you ever come accross such situation.