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Python is quite readable for short snippets.

It can be quite a mess for larger systems.

That combination of trade-offs makes it a great language to solve interview style problems in on a white board.

You can alleviate those larger scale problems in Python a bit with good IDE support, embracing type annotations, and going with a style that prefers immutability over action-at-a-distance.



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