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Re:Python Is Eating the World by andybak on Monday August 12, 2019 @06:12AM (#20674047)
> Flexibility is a strength, not a weakness.

"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.": https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by RhysU on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:09AM (#20674626)
They almost rescinded that in PEP 357 and ultimately did so in PEPs 468/469. PEP -23 updated the standard library to match, but not until 3.9.1.a. Until then, beware the various blog posts you'll find on Google talking about this concept on 1.x.
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Re:Python Is Eating the World by andybak on Friday August 16, 2019 @07:06AM (#20713933)
It was always an ideal to aim for rather than a strict rule. I don't see any of those PEPs changing the balance enough to claim the principle was dead (maybe a bit injured...)
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