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!
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Name:
Anonymous2013-09-07 5:14
>from __future__ import braces
>SyntaxError: not a chance
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Name:
Anonymous2013-09-07 5:28
'
>__ha_ha_i_am_defining_le_internal_method__ '
>print keyword as opposed to function '
>assignments aren't expressions '
>"x = y = z" is actually a special case to the interpreter '
>"if x is not None" is another special case, you'd expect "if not x is None" '
>expressions in default statements are evaluated at define time instead of call time '
>castrated lambdas that are basically return statements without the return '
>no fucking switch/case '
>abbreviated shit everywhere '
>shit like copy.copy, dis.dis, etc. Gotta namespace everything right? '
>absolute bullshit http, email, time standard libraries '
>no regular expression literals '
>have to use shitty literal port of C's re library pretty much unaltered '
>half-assed tacked-on OOP '
>old style vs. new style classes '
>multiple inheritance '
>extremely inconsistent regarding what is a method and what is a function '
>list slicing '
>that horrible fragmented package management '
>triple quoted strings, I mean what the fuck? '
>immutable strings '
>u"string" '
>'string'.join(array) '
>significant whitespace that doesn't really enforce any kind of coding style like python people claim '
>hurrr u cant do dat its not pytonic '
>__did_you_really_think_this_would_look_like_anything_but_an_ugly_fucking_hack__ '