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| PEP: 20 | |
| Title: The Zen of Python | |
| Author: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | |
| Status: Active | |
| Type: Informational | |
| Content-Type: text/x-rst | |
| Created: 19-Aug-2004 | |
| Post-History: 22-Aug-2004 | |
| Abstract | |
| ======== | |
| Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL's guiding | |
| principles for Python's design into 20 aphorisms, only 19 of which | |
| have been written down. | |
| The Zen of Python | |
| ================= | |
| .. code-block:: text | |
| 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! | |
| Easter Egg | |
| ========== | |
| .. code-block:: pycon | |
| >>> import this | |
| References | |
| ========== | |
| Originally posted to comp.lang.python/python-list@python.org under a | |
| thread called `"The Way of Python" | |
| <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/B_VxeTBClM0/L8W9KlsiriUJ>`__ | |
| Copyright | |
| ========= | |
| This document has been placed in the public domain. |