I'm coming from the smalltalk world where everything is done with
classes and objects, and I'm conscious that this issues are
interesting mainly to oo purists.
Ah, that seems to be the source of your disagreement: Python's OO-ness isn't the anal "everything must be an object" kind popular in some other languages. It grows on you, though.
And if it doesn't, complaining about it to Python coders is about as useful as complaining about sigils to a Perl crowd. :)
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Jonathan Ellis
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