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"there is only one way to do things in Python" is just vapid marketing.

It's not even that, the actual quote is "There should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do things". The whole "there is only one way to do it" was a joke response to Perl's "There's more than one way to do it" motto.



The explicit version: "There should be an obvious way to do something. Ideally only one way will be obvious."

The original version was too implicit. Unless you are Dutch.




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