Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[alex23]

On Jan 15, 5:16 am, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> I would be ecstatic with a version of Python where I might have to
> spend 20 minutes instead of 15 minutes writing the program, but then
> it runs in half an hour instead of several hours and doesn't crash.

Paul, have you looked into Cython at all? I've only used it trivially
but it does seem to provide the potential for static typing & improve
compile time checking (as well as increased performance) while
retaining as Pythonic a representation as possible.