Why and how "there is only one way to do something"?

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Dec 15 10:29:57 EST 2005


Aahz wrote:
> In article <mailman.2138.1134650183.18701.python-list at python.org>,
> Steve Holden  <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> 
>>(Part of) Python's credo (which you can read in context by typing
>>
>>    import this
>>
>>at an interactive command prompt) is "There should be one (and 
>>preferably only one) way to do it".
> 
> 
> Actually, I've gotten used to doing
> 
>     python -c 'import this'

Faster:

   python -m this

regards
  Steve
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