[Python-ideas] Addition to the Zen of python

Adam Atlas adam at atlas.st
Sat Oct 3 02:08:31 CEST 2009


On 2 Oct 2009, at 19:50, Mike Meyer wrote:
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
> ...
> The obvious way should not produce astonishing results.

Seems redundant to me. If we're to consider something a "way to do  
it" (let alone the Obvious Way), I'd presume at the very minimum that  
it does what you're trying to do.

Otherwise, it's just a non-obvious way to do something else.



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