How to "wow" someone new to Python

[Grant Edwards]

On 2015-01-22, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Mario Figueiredo wrote:
>
>> But speaking about impressing more experient programmers, I personally
>> don't think Python has a wow factor in any of its features and syntax. At
>> least in the way I understand the word "wow".
>
> Quote:
>
>     I've seen Python criticized as "ugly" precisely because it doesn't 
>     have a trick-based view of the world. In many ways, it's a dull
>     language, borrowing solid old concepts from many other languages &
>     styles: boring syntax, unsurprising semantics, few automatic 
>     coercions, etc etc. But that's one of the things I like about it.
>     - Tim Peters

Well, you know the ancient Chinese programmer's curse:

  "May you program in an interesting language".

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