[BangPypers] Python easter eggs :)

Anand Balachandran Pillai abpillai at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 14:08:41 CET 2009


>>> import __phello__
Hello world...
>>>


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Jeff Rush <jeff at taupro.com> wrote:
> Here is another...
>
>>>> from __future__ import braces
>  File "<stdin>", line 1
> SyntaxError: not a chance
>
>
> Can you find any others? ;-)
>
> -Jeff
>
>
> Rajeev Nair wrote:
>>
>> hi.
>>
>> Iam sure many here will be aware of easter eggs in python.
>>
>> For starters here is one.At the prompt type  import this
>>
>>>>> import this
>> The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
>>
>> 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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-Anand


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