[Tutor] What is "pythonic"?

[Erik Price]

On Friday, October 24, 2003, at 03:14  PM, Tom Semple wrote:

> I've seen frequent reference on this list and in other Python 
> resources to the adjective 'pythonic'. For now I am translating 
> "pythonic" as "takes good advantage of the expressive qualities of the 
> Python language".


I noticed that Perl programmers often refer to idiomatic Perl concepts 
as being "canonical [Perl]".  I always thought that "Pythonic" was 
intended to mean the same thing.  Here's the Jargon file's take on the 
term "canonical" in the context of programming, perhaps someone should 
suggest adding "pythonic" to the catalog?

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/canonical.html>



Erik