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Python tries to make it easier to avoid pitfalls. In contrast to PHP or Perl, Python believes that

> There should be one--and preferably only one--obvious way to do it.

Even something like significant whitespace forces everyone to format their code similarly.

That's not to say an incompetent programmer can't write horrible code in Python, just that Python tries to make it easier to do the right thing than the wrong thing.




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