The origin of the zen of Python

[marco-buttu]

Hi, you say that: "Barry Warsaw, one of the core Python developers, once said that it frustrated him that "The Zen of Python" (PEP 20) is used as a style guide for Python code, since it was originally written as a poem about Python's internal design. That is, the design of the language and language implementation itself."

Here's the original message:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-June/014096.html

It seems to me that it was written for the Python code, not for its internal design.

[amontalenti]

@marco-buttu -- nice sleuthwork! I heard this on a Python podcast a few months ago, so it was hearsay I never bothered to confirm. I think I'll update accordingly!