[Python-ideas] Briefer string format

[Nick Coghlan]

On 7 August 2015 at 00:15, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 08/06/2015 02:47 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
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>> the
>> right way to do something and the easiest way to do something have to
>> be the same way
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> Maybe this should be added to Python's Zen?
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>    "The right way to do something and the easiest way
>    to do something should be the same way."

It's already there in my view:

$ python -m this | grep 'obvious way'
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

When a particular approach is both easy and right, it rapidly becomes
the obvious choice. Issues arise when the right way is harder than the
wrong way, since the apparently obvious way is a bad idea, but the
superior alternative isn't as clearly applicable to the problem.

Cheers,
Nick.

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