On Saturday 11 April 2009 18:00:58 John Yeung wrote: > On Apr 11, 10:08 am, Emmanuel Surleau <emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as > > to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. > > A couple of others have already mentioned the Zen of Python, available > at the Python command prompt. I would agree with that, but also add > the caveat that none of the principles expressed there are hard-and- > fast rules. Hopefully that is clear from the quasi-contradictory > nature of the principles, but inevitably there will be some people who > complain that Python breaks this or that "rule" from the Zen.
Thank you all for the nice and prompt replies to what is a typical newbie question, which is bound to come back regularly. And no, you can't make everybody happy, per definition. > The fact is, it's impossible to satisfy every principle in every > situation. To me, Python distinguishes itself for how well it > balances all of them. "Compromise" is a word that comes up a lot when > talking about the design of Python. To some, that has a negative > connotation; to me, it's an inevitable consequence of being practical. That's fine with me: after all, you can't do software engineering without trade-offs. Cheers, Emm -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
