> Excellent. And when you want that flexibility, the verbosity pays off. When you don't, it doesn't. Simple as that. It's rarely as simple as that. For example

> Excellent. And when you want that flexibility, the verbosity pays off. When you don't, it doesn't. Simple as that. It's rarely as simple as that. For example, this entire conversation started with "At the risk of setting up a strawman for people to punch down, try comparing how easy it is to do the equivalent of something like this". And this became a discussion of straw men :) Because I could just as easily come up with "replace a range of numbers with data that is read from a database or from async function that then goes through the same transformations", and the result might not be in Python's favor.