The Zen of Python: Tim Peters

The Zen of Python

1: Beautiful is better than ugly.
2: Explicit is better than implicit.
3: Simple is better than complex.
4: Complex is better than complicated.
5: Flat is better than nested.
6: Sparse is better than dense.
7:Readability counts.
8:Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
9:Although practicality beats purity.
10:Errors should never pass silently. 11:Unless explicitly silenced.
12:In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
13:There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
14:Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
15:Now is better than never.
16:Although never is often better than *right* now.
17:If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
18:If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
19:Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
20:???
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Easter Egg:
In the terminal, type:
>>> import this
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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.
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