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At first I thought it would be in most keywords. But looking at one of my Python files (a tiny sample, to be sure), I see that it doesn't occur all that often in the keywords I used.

However, it is in most of my variable names. Given that it's the most common letter in English, that makes sense.

There's the famous phrase "ETAOIN SHRDLU", dating back to printing press days, of the approximate order of the most common letters in English.

Not to be confused with the early AI program "SHRDLU"". :-)

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