The Contradictions in ‘The Zen of Python’

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Software engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisjrn got a surprise after delivering a talk at the https://2023.pycascades.com/ Python conference in Vancouver this March. A Python core developer thanked him for providing a framework for how to make choices about coding styles.

Yet Neugebauer warned his audience that while it’s easy to think there’s a “prescriptive” design philosophy that will always dictate the syntax for good Python code — there isn’t.

Later Neugebauer concedes that type hints “solved a real use case that real Python developers could not solve with Python.”

Neugebauer then adds the perfect quote from Tim Peters’ original email announcing of the Zen of Python principles.

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