New to Python: Features

[Richard Blackwood]

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>I agree with you that it does, though not as well as you appear to
>believe (e.g. no `` 2 + "23" '' abominations in Ruby, either).  Perl
>might be better still for what he's asking -- said abomination does
>work, he gets to mess with syntax (google for lingua latina perligata),
>and so forth.
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>Alex
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Perl is a mess.  Ruby is a mess.  Python is generally clean and I love 
the whitespace.