My experience with Python is that 90+% of your code base can be in the "nice" subset, but it requires some discipline. The key is to always, always, always enca

My experience with Python is that 90+% of your code base can be in the "nice" subset, but it requires some discipline. The key is to always, always, always encapsulate the complex parts in helper functions or libraries, and accepting that maybe it isn't worth making your code twice as complicated to save a single line.