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My reading, though limited, suggests that the general notion of Idioms is used often, but rarely explained. It feels very alien to beginners. A term like "Idiomatic Python" can cause mental stack overflow. It did to me :) So I humbly submit, in this case, explicit is better than implicit. I debated whether to place it at the top of the document, where idioms are first mentioned, but placed it here instead, as this section explicitly references the topic of idioms.
Hitchhiker's Guide to Python ============================ **Python Best Practices Guidebook** ----------- **Work in progress. If you'd like to help, please do. There's a lot of work to be done.** This guide is currently under heavy development. This opinionated guide exists to provide both novice and expert Python developers a best-practice handbook to the installation, configuration, and usage of Python on a daily basis. Topics include: - Platform/version specific installations - Py2app, Py2exe, bbfreeze, pyInstaller - Pip / virtualenv - Documentation. Writing it. - server configurations / tools for various web frameworks - fabric - exhaustive module recommendations, grouped by topic/purpose - Testing. Jenkins + tox guides. - How to interface w/ hg from git easily - what libraries to use for what If you are not fond of reading reStructuredText, there is an almost up-to-date `HTML version at docs.python-guide.org <http://docs.python-guide.org>`_.