[Tutor] a quetion on "There should be one and preferabley one obvious way to do it"

[Remco Gerlich]

On  0, Karthik Gurumurthy <karthikg@aztec.soft.net> wrote:
> So here too we have different ways of getting something done.
> I guess i have not been able to get a clear picture of this python
> philosophy.
> any inputs?

Practicality beats purity.

It's a nice guideline, but not a holy law. Other ways to do something can be
added if Guido thinks it is worth it.

In Perl, it seems it is actually a *goal* to have several ways to do the
same thing, in Python it's seen as a negative thing (if there's no other
benefit), but not more than that.

[ In fact, zip() and map(None,) differ in their effect when two lists with
  unequal sizes are used - try it ]
  
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Remco Gerlich