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

[Paul Rubin]

Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> writes:
> Sometimes I just want to shout "be quiet, Python is just fine the way it
> is", but alas your objections are usually too sensible to be dismissed
> in that way. In the long term I feel it has to be good for Python that
> it has such conscientious critics.

Thanks for the kind words.  But I'm not aiming to be a conscientious
critic; I'm just an everyday user who sometimes has to grapple with
the limitations of the tool, and look for ways around them.