[Python-Dev] Adding numbering to PEP 20, the Zen of Python

[Ian Cordasco]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Ben Hoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was emailing someone today about implementing something (for PEP
> 471, as it happens) and wanted to link to the Zen of Python [1] and
> note a particular clause (in this case "If the implementation is hard
> to explain, it's a bad idea."). However, there are no clause numbers,
> so you can't refer to specific phrases.
>
> I know it's a short enough document that it probably doesn't matter.
> And maybe numbering them would make it less Zen. Would be handy in
> code reviews and the like, for example: "Not very Pythonic. See PEP 20
> point 5." Is it just my pedantic self, or have others wanted to do
> this too?
>
> [1] http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
>
> -Ben
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It's just you I think. Also, isn't this better suited for python-ideas?