The 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!