Python Design Principles
[Update 2007-09-01]
These are available here: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ as a Python PEP.
19 principles behind Python from Tim Peters: http://www.python.org/dev/culture.html
Of the 19, these 9 are my favorites:
Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.
Now is better than never.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
