On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 2:39 AM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 23.10.19 18:16, Steven D'Aprano пише: > > The average word length in English is five characters. That means that > > in a list of typical English words, more than a third of the expression > > is made up of the quotes and commas. In the example you give, there are > > twelve characters in the words themselves and eight characters worth of > > boilerplate surrounding them (quotes and commas, not including the > > spaces or brackets). > > This would be a good argument if Python be a write-only language.
I'm pretty sure the character counts are the same whether you're reading or writing. If anything, writing is based on keystrokes, but reading is based on characters. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/UUPAPTV6UBODZPSTZGHHKW4JZ7ASU3OI/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
