the core values of the Python "platform"

[Rhodri James]

On 14/09/17 03:22, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes (special characters edited):
>> As I understand it, "flat is better than nested" is talking about
>> *hierarchies* in a code base. It's not IIUC referring to anything about
>> the difference between expressions like you wrote.
> 
>    I have read »import this« again, after reading the above,
>    but there was no indication whatsoever in it that says that
>    it was talking about "*hierarchies* in a code base" only.

In any short, pithy commentary like the Zen, a great deal of what is 
said is implicit.  Given your very literalist interpretations, I would 
suggest that trying to make deductions based on the Zen is a waste of time.

-- 
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd