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

[Paul Rubin]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
> > But those occasions are rare enough that having to
> > enable the feature by saying (e.g.) "@dynamic" before the class
> > definition doesn't seem like a problem,
> 
> This imply that you (as the library author) pretend to know by advance
> when your users (programmers) will have a need for dynamism and when
> they won't.

We're not talking about libraries here.  But in fact, we do have
extensible and non-extensible versions of certain libraries (pickle,
StringIO) so that the user can pick the one that suits their requirements.