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 speak 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 nay 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!