[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And exactly what is "python's spirit/philosophy" ? It seems to me that > they are often used in a liberal way, just to support one's argument > that whatever is not in the CURRENT python should not be there.
Yes, those contentious terms "pythonic" and "unpythonic" which, as someone recently pointed out, appear to be convenient tools to respectively label one's own work as acceptable and someone else's work as deficient. I certainly don't have much time for people who, after the most cursory inspection of Python, proclaim that it is substandard for not having static typing or for employing indentation to organise source code, but I do believe that people shouldn't be given the brush-off on more subtle topics by some "Zen of Python" remark (probably not even supported by the classic Tim Peters text). It should be noted that Zope eventually experienced something of a backlash by encouraging such a culture of obscure wisdom, and sometimes Python risks experiencing some of the same. More documentation, explanation and objective discussion help to bring the newcomer to understanding, rather than alienating them with some kind of opaque, elitist retort which gives them no clue as to how they may reach such understanding. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
