There's a lot of dumb stuff out there. "Algorithms should be coded efficiently ..." Thanks, I'll keep that in mind.
van Rossum's guidelines tend toward "pick something and stick to it" which is OK if you have enough experience to pick something Pythonic. I'm a relative newbie, not qualified to pick. Anything written somewhere that's thorough? Any code body that should serve as a reference? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list