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Python Philosphy

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Long time Pythoneer Tim Peters succinctly channels the BDFL's guiding principles for Python's design into 20 aphorisms, only 19 of which have been written down. This Easter Egg is also known as PEP 20 -- The Zen of Python.

The Zen of Python

Reference:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/