There is also the lesser known, but quintessential space game: Space Rangers (GOG). It takes a little figuring out, since it's a Russian game from 2003 (and a successor of the 1999 game) and they kind of tend to be obtuse like that; but, its genuinely the coolest space sandbox I've played. It's kind of a space Mount and Blade: you can fight aliems, you can trade, you can be a mercenary, or a pirate, and the game accomodates for all of that. At whim, it switches between the core X4-esque gameplay to an RTS, or to a text quest, some of which are basically an entire game of their own. The English translation is a little spotty, but it's good enough.

Mandalore made a video about it some time ago.

It's also got a ton of mods! Though not all of them have translations.

I've definitely seen both opinions, but mostly leaning negative in my experience. Might just be confirmation bias though lol

Basically lul

Likely cuz Brody is widely considered to be obnoxious and sensationalist, and his videos range from being only surface level to just straight up wrong

Pretty sure its not a PEP, but the python glossary mentions it. Searching 'python EAFP' brings up a lot of discussion on the topic too, so if nothing else its definitely a widespread phenomenon

Truers, just mentioning it

Tbf python guidelines encourage it over if/else in cases like this. "Easier to ask for forgiveness than for permission" or something along the lines