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Explicit is good in Python world.

And I have to agree with him. Just look at the mess sclalaz did/does with its use of clever pictogram-like symbol names.

Python is very much a language where newcomers are the norm. Make the source code at least a bit self-teaching seems like a good feature.

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You are right. Let's remove the "+" operator in favor of operator.add. It's totally worth the readability.

I'm sorry but "|" is not only a very commonly known operator in the entire programming world, it is already an officially supported operator by python, vastly used by the community for doing unions: sets use it, sqlalchemy use it, pandas use it.

Let's not confuse explicite and paperwork.

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