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PEP: 20
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Title: The Zen of Python
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Version: $Revision$
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Last-Modified: $Date$
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Author: tim@zope.com (Tim Peters)
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Status: Active
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Type: Informational
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Created: 19-Aug-2004
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Post-History: 22-Aug-2004
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Abstract
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Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL's
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guiding principles for Python's design into 20 aphorisms, only 19
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of which have been written down.
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The Zen of Python
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Beautiful is better than ugly.
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Explicit is better than implicit.
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Simple is better than complex.
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Complex is better than complicated.
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Flat is better than nested.
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Sparse is better than dense.
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Readability counts.
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Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
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Although practicality beats purity.
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Errors should never pass silently.
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Unless explicitly silenced.
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In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
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There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
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Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
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Now is better than never.
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Although never is often better than *right* now.
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If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
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If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
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Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
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Easter Egg
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>>> import this
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Copyright
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This document has been placed in the public domain.
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