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Goes beyond PEP8 to discuss what makes Python code feel great. A Strunk & White for Python.
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The origin of the zen of Python #29

Open marco-buttu opened 8 years ago

marco-buttu commented 8 years ago

Hi, you say that: "Barry Warsaw, one of the core Python developers, once said that it frustrated him that "The Zen of Python" (PEP 20) is used as a style guide for Python code, since it was originally written as a poem about Python's internal design. That is, the design of the language and language implementation itself."

Here's the original message:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/014096.html

It seems to me that it was written for the Python code, not for its internal design.

amontalenti commented 8 years ago

@marco-buttu -- nice sleuthwork! I heard this on a Python podcast a few months ago, so it was hearsay I never bothered to confirm. I think I'll update accordingly!