> Being able to say one thing a hundred different ways isn't good if the read has to search for a hundred different maybe-meanings a given string might have. T

> Being able to say one thing a hundred different ways isn't good if the read has to search for a hundred different maybe-meanings a given string might have. This the absurd notion that there is some one "best" way to do things...hard core disagree. If this were true, there should only be one library, one way of doing anything, one codebase, and therefore only one program, nay even there should only be one programmer, and Python should be a pet project of this one programmer doing everything one way... The fact that you can obfuscate python, means python has failed its ethos in this respect (https://pypi.org/project/python-obfuscator/ https://pypi.org/project/python-obfuscator/). Compatibility is good, a thriving ecosystem is better. Critically, a thriving ecosystem is made by a hundred different ways of doing something, all doing something similar, not by making everything similar, so that the first time if fails, its game over.