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| From | John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Is vars() the most useless Python built-in ever? |
| Date | Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:56:04 +0000 (UTC) |
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In <4f0f7fc5-c93a-4223-9c05-e192a8fafbbd@googlegroups.com> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> writes:
> Your lament does remind me of a pet peeve i have concerning Python, and
> that is, the lie about: "THERE SHOULD BE ONE (AND PREFERABLY ONLY ONE)
> WAY TO DO IT!". In fact, in python there is almost always *MANY* ways to
> achieve the same output.=20
The koan reads:
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
You left out the rather important word "obvious".
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John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs
gordon@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears
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