What does "Sparse is better than dense" mean? (Python Zen)

[James J. Besemer]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> Not hard at all -- PEP 7 does that too, yet every time I see
> that construct...
>         }
>         else {
> my blood still boils!-)

Oh, yeah.  That's completely brain dead.

My point is I don't have any qualms about ignoring those several points on
which I happend to disagree.

> Further, PEP 7 is enforced for patches to Python -- sensibly, mind you,
> as we wouldn't want Python's C sources to be a mixmax of styles -- but...

"It's good to be the king."

--jb

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