Comment by goatlover

I don't agree that more verbose code is necessarily more readable when the shorter code looks like familiar math. All you have to do is learn how operators broadcast across array-like structures, how slicing and filtering works. Perhaps with more complicated examples the shorter code becomes harder to read after months away? Mathematicians are able to handle a lot of compact equations.

No doubt some of this comes down to preference as to what's considered readable. I never really bought that argument that regular expressions create more problems than they're worth. Perhaps I side on the expressivity end of the readability debate.