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The Zen of Python: Import This

I have been coding quite a bit in Python these few months. In the midst of research and reading up, I revisited the Zen of Python . This is a set of 20 software principles that influenced the development of the language. Having read this a few years back (it was first written around 1999), now I am seeing some of the principles in a new light. I'm still learning and finding my way around so I decided to learn more about what these principles mean to different people. Here's a great presentation I found on Slideshare.net  when I dug deeper into how different people explain each of these 20 principles in their own ways. An Introduction to the Zen of Python from doughellmann Incidentally I just found out that the Zen of Python is coded into the language itself. You can get Python to display this by entering this line of code: import this It will return the following result, right inside your interpreter: The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is bette