[Tutor] Best IDE for python?

Dick Moores rdm at rcblue.com
Sat Mar 10 02:11:44 CET 2007


At 05:04 PM 3/9/2007, Dick Moores wrote:
>At 04:22 PM 3/9/2007, ALAN GAULD wrote:
> >http://www.netropolis.org/hash/perl/virtue.html
>
>An Alice in Wonderland world of weirdness!

Now here's a world I like:

 >>> import this
The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

Dick 



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