[wyldfire]

I think the best way to get some perspective on unnecessary clutter versus valuable annotations is to wade into a project that you've never seen before, with many thousands of lines of python.

If you pick a line at random and try to understand what it does or why it's failing, you will have a hard time. Python (by design) is so mega ultra dynamic that each line could conceivably turn the world upside-down. Most code I've seen doesn't take advantage of that dynamism. But still - it's tricky just reasoning about stuff like: what kind of values that call could return?" or "what kind of an operation the index really does here?"