The "one way to do it" slogan was useful when comparing to Perl (TMTOWTDI), as it highlighted different philosophies (understandable vs expressive). I think it

The "one way to do it" slogan was useful when comparing to Perl (TMTOWTDI), as it highlighted different philosophies (understandable vs expressive). I think it is wrong to take it literally. There is many different ways of doing the same things in Python.