[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Jun 15, 9:37 am, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters > > … > > There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. > > I agree with that concept. But there already is more than one way to > do it, only that the other ways are being made less accessible (by > not being on the standard library), don't you think?
With the result that there is only one *obvious* way to do it. That's a property worth some effort to preserve. For some reason, people always overlook that qualification when reading that part of the Zen. -- \ “A hundred times every day I remind myself that [...] I must | `\ exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have | _o__) received and am still receiving” —Albert Einstein | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list