The deal with what's "Pythonic" is that Guido believes it's better to have Python be clear upfront about what it does and doesn't do well, and to have a relativ

The deal with what's "Pythonic" is that Guido believes it's better to have Python be clear upfront about what it does and doesn't do well, and to have a relatively straightforward way to express those things. This is in reaction to languages such as Perl that have several ways to do the same thing, sometimes with counter-intuitive differences in performance. It's good to ask whether the benefit of adding feature X to the language is worth the cost of making it that much larger. While I would choose a different subset of features, I think he's got a good point.