I don't understand how people talk about how Python is "easy to learn for beginners" or "easy to understand." To me it's so hard to remember and follow all the weirdness. Racket / Scheme / I dare say even Haskell would just be so much simpler for learners.

I'm with Conal Elliot when he said on Type Theory for All that it is sooo much harder to understand a program in Python.