It's aspirational, not prescriptive. Just consider urllib, urllib2, urllib3, and requests. Or getopt, optparse, argparse, and docopt. Or countless others. I a

It's aspirational, not prescriptive. Just consider urllib, urllib2, urllib3, and requests. Or getopt, optparse, argparse, and docopt. Or countless others. I appreciate that the Python community continually strives for ever-more obvious and ergonomic ways of accomplishing tasks. While there is an ecosystem complexity cost to the solutions-that-weren't, it's no greater than the churn than I've seen in other popular languages. The Zen of Python even pokes fun at the "one obvious way" by writing its three em-dashes three different ways in the same document.