On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:02:19 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> writes: > >> And everyone taking the Zen too seriously should remember that it was >> written by Tim Peters one night during the commercial breaks between >> rounds of wrestling on television. So while it can give useful >> guidance, it's nether prescriptive nor a bible ... > > Even to those who don't know or don't remember its history, the Zen has > an excellent reminder of just how seriously it should be taken: > > Load the source code for the ‘this’ module into a text editor, and see > how many of the maxims it violates.
None of them. It's a straightforward implementation of rot13, but written as a one-off script rather than a re-usable function. That's okay -- not everything has to be re-usable. The worst sin of this.py is something which is not mentioned in the Zen: the use of magic constants rather than named values, and the use of ints instead of characters. But as sins go, they're venal rather than mortal in a module this small, and I interpret this as a deliberate: it's a reminder that the Zen is not the last word in programming maxims. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
