[Tutor] learn python to build payment processor

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Thu Jul 12 10:55:06 EDT 2018


On 07/11/2018 08:34 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 9:01 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
> 
> From:
>> (see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/)
> It says:
> 
> "Abstract
> Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL's guiding
> principles for Python's design into 20 aphorisms, only 19 of which
> have been written down."
> 
> What is the unwritten twentieth aphorism?  If this is a joke or pun,
> I'm missing it.

That's been speculated on for years :)

The top-voted answer here suggests there really isn't one:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4504487/the-zen-of-python-distils-the-guiding-principles-for-python-into-20-aphorisms-bu


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