Python handles globals badly.

[Akira Li]

Vladimir Ignatov <kmisoft at gmail.com> writes:

>>> I had some experience programming in Lua and I'd say - that language
>>> is bad example to follow.
>>> Indexes start with 1  (I am not kidding)
>>
>> What is so bad about that?
>
> It's different from the rest 99.9% of languages for no particular reason.
>
> ( => perfect example of "design smell" => not a good example to follow)
>

It is not just a matter of tradition. Even if you were to invent the
very first programming language; there are reasons to prefer the
zero-based indexing. See "Why numbering should start at zero"
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html