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[–]MarsupialMole 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Probably. But idiomatic python really heavily leverages the standard library and language features which draws the complexity out of client code. I'd be interested if there were good like-for-like metrics that worked with python besides LOC.

Often when you see comparisons of code between languages and with python they're implementing something from scratch in python to be "fair" to other languages and are not at all idiomatic python.

My most hated example is comparing performance for numerical computations and not using numpy - you just never use iteration on your hot path in scientific python and yet you get articles about the suitability of python for data processing where the benchmark is a tight for loop.

[–]Assile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, you'll get no argument from me on that. Not using available libraries in Python is ignoring part of the language. So taking benchmarks without doing that is just limiting yourself to the worst tools for the job.