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Subject: Re: Tcl vs Python - DN [1]

amk@mira.erols.com (A.M. Kuchling) - 10 Jun 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 On Fri, 09 Jun 2000 15:18:49 +0100,
     Paul Duffin <pduffin@hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
 >Anyone prepared to add a description of "The Python Way" ????

 Tim Peters, a very long-time Python user, wrote up a list.  Most of
 the principles were written with the language design in mind, though
 many of them are also applicable to writing code in Python.

1. Beautiful is better than ugly.
2. Explicit is better than implicit.
3. Simple is better than complex.
4. Complex is better than complicated.
5. Flat is better than nested.
6. Sparse is better than dense.
7. Readability counts.
8. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
9. Although practicality beats purity.

   10. Errors should never pass silently.
   11. Unless explicitly silenced.
   12. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
   13. There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.
   14. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
   15. Now is better than never.
   16. Although never is often better than *right* now.
   17. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
   18. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
   19. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

   -- Tim Peters' 19 Pythonic Theses, 4 Jun 1999

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