Finally, you can use comments in Python to make jokes. This will irritate some people and it’s certainly not going to make your code as clean and efficient as possible.

TOML lets you insert comments simply by prefixing them with a hash symbol, as you would in Python. Small wonder, then, that Python itself is gravitating toward TOML as a configuration standard.

Here's why some popular features found in other languages—including static typing, multiline lambdas, and native JIT compilation—are a no-go for Python, at least for now.