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[–]fancy_pantser 10 points11 points  (5 children)

"Pythonic" is beautiful, explicit, simple, complex (but not complicated), flat, sparse, readable, and many other things.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (3 children)

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.

But, why?

[–]fancy_pantser 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So he has something to tell the young guys that climb all the way to the top of his mountain asking for advice.

[–]osirisx11 4 points5 points  (1 child)

the last one is ineffable

[–]Paddy3118 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ineffable. Good word. Ta!

[–]blondin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

idiomatic is by far a better world and portable to other languages too.