Dan Sommers wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:35:54 -0700, > Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>That said, I made a boo-boo. The Zen of Python is really a set of >>design principles (and some of them, like this one, are more >>specifically *language* design principles), not Essential Development >>Practices. That'll teach me to not RTFA. > > > May I respectfully disagree? The Zen applies to all aspects of software > (and other things, too, but they're off topic here), from human readable > reports and requirements and documentation, to GUI's, to test cases, to > code, to database schemta, as well as the development methodology and > practices themselves. > > Sometimes you have to look at the Zen sideways, so that "implementation" > appears to be replaced by the particular aspect or aspects (or the > software, or just software, as a whole, for the true Masters out there) > you happen to be working on at the time, but such is the nature of Zen. > > Regards, > Dan > If I canpoint out the obvious, the output from "import this" *is* headed "The Zen of Python", so clearly it isn;t intended to be universal in its applicability.
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