Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you
would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. Judging from Python, it
seems to exclude (mostly) "magical" variables like '$.'. Is this right? What
else would you include in this definition?
At the python command-prompt, issue
import this
which will dump "The Zen of Python". I'd debate "flat vs.
nested" depending on context (nested IFs? nested call-graph?
nested data-structures?), but otherwise this summarizes many of
the reasons I esteem Python above all the other computer
languages I've used (pascal and VB came close; ruby & perl were
so distant from these ideals, I cringe every time I have to touch
them for anything).
-tkc
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