If anything then he has proven exactly what you're saying, hence that it is OK to being explicit rather than try and be picky about these things, and that code

If anything then he has proven exactly what you're saying, hence that it is OK to being explicit rather than try and be picky about these things, and that code readability can easily be a priority in python. There are also a few exceptions (the update() method on a dict and list comprehensions). As a junior python dev < me < senior python dev, this was very cool to read, also very quick to take in, kuddos on the presentation