Rant (was Re: x*x if x>10

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:41:19 +0200, Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

> DaveM schrieb:
>> Getting back to the
>> list concatenation, I finally found the itertools.chain command which
>> is the most compact and fastest (or second fastest by a trivial amount,
>> I can't remember which). Along the way, I must have tried/used half a
>> dozen methods, ...which brings me back my initial PERL comment. There's
>> more than one way to do it in Python, too.
> 
> Any non-trivial task has that property. I don't know enough perl to have
> an example ready that shows something that python has only one way of
> doing and perl has several.
> 
> But I *do* know that taking the python zen literally is fruitless.

I think it should be taken more literally than the wrong reduction to 
"there should be only one way".  People tend to forget "obvious" and 
"preferably" all the time.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch