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Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01 <at> gmail.com> writes:
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> The zen of python is simply a guideline

What's more, the Zen guides the language's design, not its implementation.
People who think CPython is a complicated implementation can take a look at PyPy 
:-)

Regards

Antoine.


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