Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

[James Stroud]

Kay Schluehr wrote:
> On Jun 9, 12:16 pm, James Stroud <jstr... at mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> In Python, you have a choice of recursion (normal or tail)
>> Please explain this. I remember reading on this newsgroup that an
>> advantage of ruby (wrt python) is that ruby has tail recursion, implying
>> that python does not.
> 
> Proof by rumour?

"Proof" if you define "proof" by asking for clarification about a vague 
recollection of an even more vague posting. I think now I'll prove 
Fermat's Last Theorem by hailing a cab.