python idioms : some are confusing

[Vineet]

Oh I see !
On these lines mentioned by you, I can now sense the sense.
Thanks.

On Friday, 21 September 2012 11:22:45 UTC+5:30, alex23  wrote:
> On Sep 21, 3:34 pm, Vineet <vineet.deod... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Amongst the python idioms, how the below-mentioned make sense?
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> > ## There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
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> > --- In programming, there can be a number of ways, equally efficient, to do certain  thing.
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> This isn't talking about your Python code as much as about Python
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> itself. For example, in Python 2.x you can use either `open` or `file`
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> to open a file, with `file` being a factory function for creating file
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> objects, and `open` using it internally. In Python 3.x, `file` is no
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> longer a built-in, as it produced a point of confusion as to which was
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> the one obvious way to open a file.
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> > ## Although never is often better than *right* now.
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> > --- How come "never" is better that "right now" ?
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> It's better to not add a language feature than it is to add it poorly,
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> especially when you endeavour to provide backwards compatibility as
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> much as possible within major versions.