Summary

This chapter showed you what the Pythonic philosophy is all about and some of the reasoning behind it. Additionally, you have learned about the Zen of Python and what is considered beautiful and ugly within the Python community. While code style is highly personal, Python has a few very helpful guidelines that at least keep people mostly on the same page and style.

In the end, we are all consenting adults; everyone has the right to write code as they sees fit. But I do request that you please read through the style guides and try to adhere to them unless you have a really good reason not to.

With all that power comes great responsibility, and a few pitfalls, though there aren’t too many. Some are tricky enough to fool me regularly and I’ve been writing Python for a long time! Python improves all the time though. Many pitfalls have been taken care of since Python 2, but some will always remain. For example, circular imports and definitions can easily...