The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters
Beautiful is better than ugly.
优美胜于丑陋。
Explicit is better than implicit.
明确胜于隐晦。
Simple is better than complex.
简单胜于复杂。
Complex is better than complicated.
复杂胜于难懂。
Flat is better than nested.
扁平胜于嵌套。
Sparse is better than dense.
留白胜于紧凑。
Readability counts.
可读性很重要
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
特例也并不能特殊到可以违背这些原则。
Although practicality beats purity.
虽然实用性胜于纯粹性。
Errors should never pass silently.
错误不应被默默地忽略。
Unless explicitly silenced.
除非你明确地忽视。
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
面对歧义，不要尝试去猜测。
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
应该有一种——最好是仅有一种——明显的处理方式。
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
一开始那种方式并非显而易见，除非你是python之父
Now is better than never.
做好过不做。
Although never is often better than right now.
不假思索就动手还不如不做。
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
如果实现很难解释，那就不是个好思路。
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
如果实现易于解释，则可能是个好思路。
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!
命名空间是个绝妙的主意，我们要多多利用它