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

Unless we keep adding more ways to do the same thing of course.

There have always been 100 ways to do everything in python. People just constantly spout the zen thing to look smart.

There have been multiple ways to do the same thing but that shouldn't be an excuse to keep adding features that don't contribute anything meaningful apart from expanding the syntax.

The zen thing is cited so much because it's often inconsistent the language itself.

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