[Python-Dev] Design Principles

[Aahz]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> FWIW, after this is over, I'll put together a draft list of these
> principles.  The one listed above has served us well.  An early draft of
> itertools.ifilter() had an invert flag.  The toolset improved when that
> was split to a separate function, ifilterfalse().
> 
> Other thoughts:
> 
> Tim's rule on algorithm selection:  We read Knuth so you don't have to.
> 
> Raymond's rule on language proposals:  Assertions that construct X is
> better than an existing construct Y should be backed up by a variety of
> side-by-side comparisons using real-world code samples.
> 
> I'm sure there are plenty more if these in the archives.

Nice!  Also a pointer to the Zen of Python.
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