[Python-ideas] allow `lambda' to be spelled λ

[Ben Finney]

Pavol Lisy <pavol.lisy at gmail.com> writes:

> Questions around "only one possibilities how to write it" could be
> probably answered with this?
>
>   a<b
>   a.__lt__(b)

The maxim is not “only one way”. That is a common misconception, but it
is easily dispelled: read the Zen of Python (by ‘import this’ in the
interactive prompt).

Rather, the maxim is “There should be one obvious way to do it”, with a
parenthetical “and preferably only one”.

So the emphasis is on the way being *obvious*, and all other ways being
non-obvious. This leads, of course, to choosing the best way to also be
the one obvious way to do it.

Your example above supports this: the comparison ‘a < b’ is the one
obvious way to compare whether ‘a’ is less than ‘b’.

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