What does "Sparse is better than dense" mean? (Python Zen)

"James J. Besemer" <jb at cascade-sys.com> writes:

> Browsing through the 2.2 Library, about half the modules I checked> exhibited deviations from the standard re horizontal whitespace.  So> not too many key contributors appear to share your zealous view on> this particular point.

The coding standard was written down relatively recently.  Many of the
standard libraries were not.  Often when someone is working on a
module they'll fix up the whitespace while they're there, but few
people go on whitespace-fixing crusades.

Cheers,
M.

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