it seems like a few weeks ago... but actually it was more like 30 years ago that i was programming in C, and

[Greg Ewing]

On 28/02/23 7:40 am, avi.e.gross at gmail.com wrote:
> inhahe <inhahe at gmail.com> made the point that this may not have been the original intent for python and may be a sort of bug that it is too late to fix.

Guido has publically stated that it was a deliberate design choice.
The merits of that design choice can be debated, but it wasn't a
bug or an accident.

-- 
Greg