Is vars() the most useless Python built-in ever?

[John Gordon]

In <4f0f7fc5-c93a-4223-9c05-e192a8fafbbd at googlegroups.com> Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com> writes:

> Your lament does remind me of a pet peeve i have concerning Python, and
> that is, the lie about: "THERE SHOULD BE ONE (AND PREFERABLY ONLY ONE)
> WAY TO DO IT!". In fact, in python there is almost always *MANY* ways to
> achieve the same output.=20

The koan reads:

    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

You left out the rather important word "obvious".

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