Zen of Python
  • The Zen of Python is...
      • Beautiful is better than ugly.
      • Explicit is better than implicit.
      • Simple is better than complex.
      • Complex is better than complicated.
      • Flat is better than nested.
      • Sparse is better than dense.
      • Readability counts.
      • Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
      • Although practicality beats purity.
      • Errors should never pass silently.
      • Unless explicitly silenced.
      • In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
      • There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
      • Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
      • Now is better than never.
      • Although never is often better than *right* now.
      • If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
      • If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
      • Namespaces are one honking great idea – let’s do more of those!
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Zen of Python¶

  • Beautiful is better than ugly.
  • Explicit is better than implicit.
  • Simple is better than complex.
  • Complex is better than complicated.
  • Flat is better than nested.
  • Sparse is better than dense.
  • Readability counts.
  • Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
  • Although practicality beats purity.
  • Errors should never pass silently.
  • Unless explicitly silenced.
  • In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
  • There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
  • Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
  • Now is better than never.
  • Although never is often better than *right* now.
  • If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
  • If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
  • Namespaces are one honking great idea – let’s do more of those!

Credits¶

The Zen of Python is officially documented in PEP 20 by Tim Peters.

This site was inspired by David Gouldin’s tweet at the lazyweb, though it deviates somewhat from his original specification. The site is built with Sphinx and uses Ryan Roemer’s Sphinx Bootstrap Theme. It was compiled by Vince Veselosky and is hosted at Github.

Also, for managing the annoyingly tricky gh-pages branch, I use Paul Davis’s ghp-import tool, which makes life so much easier.

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