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Zen of Python

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Beautiful is better than ugly.

Explicit is better than implicit.

Simple is better than complex.

Complex is better than complicated.

Flat is better than nested.

Sparse is better than dense.

Readability counts.

Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.

Although practicality beats purity.

Errors should never pass silently.

Unless explicitly silenced.

In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.

Now is better than never.

Although never is often better than *right* now.

If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.

If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!

Written by didip

January 5, 2008 at 8:16 pm

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  1. import this

    Keith Wright

    April 1, 2009 at 2:20 pm

  2. Nice poem! :)

    I personally am thinking of starting a Python blog…so when I do, please watch out for it! :D

    sravan953

    August 24, 2009 at 5:14 am


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