Be careful proposing lines of code as a software metric or someone will post a perl one-liner that does minimax search and therefore solves go ;-).And the point is to realize the same functionnality, the code is *really* shorter than java or C++. For exemple, in my project, with the help of introspection, I parsed a file, transform it into a full working Python object, add one simple unittest, all in one file of 79 lines.