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

[Aahz]

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'
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