A "best practice" is essentially the same thing as "idiomatic python" in my opinion - I could pick apart different meanings from each but often times, it really

A "best practice" is essentially the same thing as "idiomatic python" in my opinion - I could pick apart different meanings from each but often times, it really is used to say the same thing. The phrase "best practice" isn't taboo in my experience - I'll often ask what the "best practice would be for implementing XYZ". If you rephrase that, "what is an idiomatic way to implement XYZ", it's saying the same thing. Python's community probably leans toward this diction because the culture of python revolves around the nebulous concepts of simplicity, obviousness, and "only one way", that in order to make those concepts more hylic and less "abstract and subjective" there is a lot of education (in the form of docs, PEP8, the very doc linked to in this post) to set the stage for what the expected idiom is.