On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:44 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > Reading really isn't based on characters. People generally read words as a single unit rather than reading each character individually.
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