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>Ok, so it's not just a language wart, but a fertile source of pointless inefficiency in everyday Python code, glad to know.

The fact that it's used all the time would suggest it's not pointless inefficiency, no? Maybe you should try Python before bashing it.

>Python is doing the exact same thing as Go here, but in a less efficient manner.

It's not doing the same thing. "�є" is not the same as "єℓℓ".




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