Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Luis Zarrabeitia]

Quoting Paul Rubin <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid>:

> Often, the Python program crashes halfway through, even though I
> tested it on a few megabytes of data before starting the full
> multi-gigabyte run, because it hit some unexpected condition in the
> data that could have been prevented with more compile time checking
> that made sure the structures understood by the one-off script matched
> the ones in the program that generated the input data.

Wait, do you _really_ believe that _static_ checks could prevent problems
arising from _unexpected_ conditions in the _data_?

-- 
Luis Zarrabeitia
Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH
http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie