THE ZEN OF PYTHON
The Zen of Python was written by Software engineer Tim Peters. He posted it on the python mailing list in 1999. He wrote nineteen (19) python aphorism to help python users write a clean codes. Tim left the twentieth spot on his nineteen guiding principles to be filled by Guido Van Rossum, the author of Python programming language. Did Van Rossum fill the spot? No, he didn't. Tim's Zen of python was included as an entry number 20 in the language's official Python Enhancement Proposals and was released into the public domain . It is included in your python IDE. You can view it by typing: >>> import this The Zen of Python says: Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unles