[Python-ideas] Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 14:14:47 EDT 2018


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 3:57 AM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
> And I don't know what can be really 'beautiful'
> in _any_ code.
> Ugly - yes, it's often can be  said about the code which is full of
> redundant punctuation, bad formatting, etc.
> But this  sound strange: "this code is beautiful". Do people really
> say like that?
>

Yes. Yes, I do. Not often, because code is seldom beautiful enough to
warrant comment, but it definitely does happen.

ChrisA


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