On Jul 24, 4:11 am, Jordan <jordanrastr... at gmail.com> wrote: > Of course not. > > I just think Explicit is better than Implicit is taken seriously by a > large segment the Python community as a guiding principle, Yeah, try telling that to the people who advise writing "if x" instead of "if x==0", or "if s" instead of "if len(s)==0". Carl Banks