A good measure of the complexity of a system is the length of its documentation. That is, assuming that the documentation is of good
quality, and for Python I think it is.

I decided to do a quick count of the length, by using WeasyPrint to
convert the HTML pages to PDF files, and totalling up the number of
PDF pages generated.

For Python 3.14 (still the default on Debian Unstable as of this
writing), the main language documentation is divided into 3 parts: the
core language, the builtins, and the standard library.

For the core language (files
/usr/share/doc/python3.14/html/reference/*.html), I counted 271 pages
total.

For the builtins (files
/usr/share/doc/python3.14/html/builtins/*.html), I counted 218 pages
total.

These counts might be slight overestimates. I saw a couple of extra
pages with no body text in one or two PDF files, and also the default
font seemed a bit large.

For comparison, the Java 21 language spec, already provided as a PDF
file, totals 872 pages. Note this is just the core language, not even
including the java.lang package (the equivalent of Python?s builtins).

This confirms the point, that Python is a much simpler language than
Java. And yet it does this without compromising on power: Python
manages to include niceties like multiple inheritance and operator
overloads, which Java had to leave out.

I also did a count of the standard library (files /usr/share/doc/python3.14/html/library/*.html); this consisted of 323
separate HTML files, totalling 3915 formatted pages. It took nearly 20
minutes to format and count all these.

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