[Tutor] easy newbie questions: text file to list?

[Bob Gailer]

At 01:20 AM 5/23/2003 +0200, Magnus Lyck=E5 wrote:

>At 10:49 2003-05-21 +0000, ashleigh smythe wrote:
>>You guys weren't kidding when you say there's more
>>than one way to do things with Python!
>
>No, No. It's for *Perl* that the motto is:
>"There is more than one way to do it".
>
>For Python, there are 19 mottos, and one of them is:
>
>"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
>
>unfortunately, the next motto is:
>
>"Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch."
>
>The diversity in replies is basically a failure. Either in Python or
>in us. ;) To learn more, open a python interpreter and type:
>
> >>> import this

I notice that this is not in the module index. Are there other gems like=20
this that are hidden?

Interesting content:

"Explicit is better than implicit."
"Readability counts."
"In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess."

I guess these ideas could be applied to documentation.

Bob Gailer
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