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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Sep 14 04:43:16 EDT 2018


Tim Delaney wrote:
> And I can't think of an elegant replacement for "ugly" to pair with 
> "elegant".

There's "inelegant", but it doesn't have the same punch as
"ugly". And I think Tim deliberately chose a very punchy word
for that line, to reflect that we care a *lot* about aesthetics
in Python.

-- 
Greg



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