PEP 20 - Silly Question?

Eric Snow ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com
Tue Sep 6 12:26:05 EDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Joseph Armbruster
<josepharmbruster at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have used Python for some time and ran a windows build-bot for a bit.
>  This morning, I told a fellow developer "There should be only one obvious
> way to do it." and then I proceeded to forward him to the Zen of Python and
> sent him a link to:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/
> I noticed that it says only 19 of 20 have been written down.  Which one was
> not written down?

I'm not sure there ever was a 20th.  Apparently Tim Peters was going
to leave the last one for Guido to fill in:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/616160.html

(from http://www.wefearchange.org/2010/06/import-this-and-zen-of-python.html)

-eric

> Thank You,
> Joseph Armbruster
>
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