Ben Finney wrote: > No. "The fewer characters, the better" is not right. Such absolutes > are to be avoided. > > Sometimes, as in the case of omitting block-enclosing braces, removing > characters results in better readability. Other times, as in the case > of explicit names for objects, *more* characters results in better > readability -- but only up to a point.
Ok, true, but there seems (to me) to be a difference between content-related characters, such as giving more descriptive names to variables, and syntax-related characters, such as colons and braces. I was thinking strictly of the language syntax and not necessarily about making the code quite literally more readable (with real words for variables instead of 'x', or 'timv' instead of 'this_is_my_variable'). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
