I’ve been coding Python for most of the day.  Well, in between housekeeping duties.  I have a vague sense that my love of Python has reached a plateau.  What bothers me most is that the data model is quite complicated.  The distinction between sets, frozensets, tuples, and lists leads to a lot of ugly code, such as s = tuple([tuple()]).  I suppose I could have written s = ((),) which is not much better.  In other places, though, I have to throw values around from type to another.  It is a pity that sets and lists are not hashable, otherwise I wouldn’t be mucking with all these types.  Oh well, perhaps any language that is sufficiently powerful is going to contain such problems.  Perhaps I, too, have some pettiness to expiate.

I must admit that Python makes it much easier to implement high-level algorithms in a semi-readable way.  I don’t really see myself writing long programs in Python:  I use it mostly for prototyping.  And there are many cases where I would rather turn to awk or perhaps even PHP.