[BangPypers] Python easter eggs :)

Anand Balachandran Pillai abpillai at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 14:09:26 CET 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai
<abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> import __phello__
> Hello world...

Apparently, happens only the first time you import it ;)

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> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:17 PM, Jeff Rush <jeff at taupro.com> wrote:
>> Here is another...
>>
>>>>> from __future__ import braces
>>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>> SyntaxError: not a chance
>>
>>
>> Can you find any others? ;-)
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>> Rajeev Nair wrote:
>>>
>>> hi.
>>>
>>> Iam sure many here will be aware of easter eggs in python.
>>>
>>> For starters here is one.At the prompt type  import this
>>>
>>>>>> import this
>>> The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
>>>
>>> Beautiful is better than ugly.
>>> Explicit is better than implicit.
>>> Simple is better than complex.
>>> Complex is better than complicated.
>>> Flat is better than nested.
>>> Sparse is better than dense.
>>> Readability counts.
>>> Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
>>> Although practicality beats purity.
>>> Errors should never pass silently.
>>> Unless explicitly silenced.
>>> In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
>>> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
>>> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
>>> Now is better than never.
>>> Although never is often better than *right* now.
>>> If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
>>> If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
>>> Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
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