The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark

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The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark


Beautiful is an attribute of ugly.
Explicit is implemented by implicit.
Simple is provided by complex.
Complex is directly provided by complicated.
Flat only implements nested.
Sparse has tagged value dense.
Readability count is not in range.
Special cases could not adapt the rules.
Practicality implements purity.
Errors should never require a specification that doesn’t extend the 
specification of silence.
Unless explicit is a multi-adapter.
In subscribing to ambiguity, return all the objects that refuse the 
temptation to guess.
There should be none-- and preferably only zero --output from a handler.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you've registered 
an adapter hook.
Now is verified by never.
Although never is not implemented by *right* now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it queries the bad idea utility.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may query the good idea utility.
Implicit namespace packages are one honking great idea -- let's do more 
of those!

-- 
Alex Clark · https://www.gittip.com/aclark4life/

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The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark Alex Clark <aclark@aclark.net> - 2012-12-09 20:13 -0500
  Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-10 04:24 +0000
    Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark Alex Clark <aclark@aclark.net> - 2012-12-10 08:50 -0500
    Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2012-12-12 10:01 +1300
      Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark Alex Clark <aclark@aclark.net> - 2012-12-11 16:23 -0500
        Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-12-11 16:36 -0800
          Re: The Zen of Zope, by Alex Clark Alex Clark <aclark@aclark.net> - 2012-12-11 20:42 -0500

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