Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

[Terry Reedy]

"James Stroud" <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote in message 
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| Terry Reedy wrote:
| > In Python, you have a choice of recursion (normal or tail)
|
| Please explain this.

I am working on a paper for Python Papers that will.  It was inspired by 
the question 'why doesn't Python do tail-recursion optimization'.

tjr