Citizen Kant wrote:
I roughly came to the idea that Python could be considered as an *economic mirror for data*, one that mainly *mirrors* the data the programmer types on its black surface, not exactly as the programmer originally typed it, but expressed in the most economic way possible.
At best, this would be true only for a very small subset of things that you can enter into the interactive interpreter. Even confining yourself to arithmetic expressions, there are problems. Consider: >>> 12**34 4922235242952026704037113243122008064L The input is 6 characters long, and the output is 37 characters long. Is that more "economical"? -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
