The Zen of Python

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.

I think these principles we can use in real life, aren't they?

• 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 special enough to break the rules
• Although practicality beats purity
• Errors should never pass silently
• Unless explicitly silenced
• In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess
• There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it
• Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch
• Now is better than never
• Although never is often better than *right* now
• If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea
• If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea
• Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

FYI
In python command line just add this line of code:

>>>import this

And you will get all these principles... :-)