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Else on for loops is truly terrible yea. I don't understand why Python STILL hasn't come up with alternate syntax and a deprecation path.

I think the trinary op in Python is way superior to Cs, and I came to Python from C.

The variable that was never declared when you hit is bad too yea, but I don't think block level scoping is any good. Pythons rule of having just two scopes (mostly) is imo the sane thing to do. Every single block adding a scope is just chaos, and C++ really screws this up with implicit this.