保持简单、追求简单，我想这就是编码之中的禅，一种回归本真的境界。这种禅意在 Python 的设计哲学中体现的淋漓尽致，在 Python 解释器中输入“import this”，便会出现经典的 Python 之禅。

• Beautiful is better than ugly. 
  优美胜于丑陋。

• Explicit is better than implicit.
  显式胜于隐式。

• Simple is better than complex.
  简单胜于复杂。

• Complex is better than complicated.
  复杂胜于难懂。

• Flat is better than nested.
  扁平胜于嵌套。

• Sparse is better than dense.
  分散胜于密集。

• Readability counts.
  可读性应当被重视。

• Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity.
  尽管实用性会打败纯粹性，特例也不能凌驾于规则之上。

• Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced.
  除非明确地使其沉默，错误永远不应该默默地溜走。

• In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
  面对不明确的定义，拒绝猜测的诱惑。

• There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.
  用一种方法，最好只有一种方法来做一件事。

• Although that way way not be obvious at first unless you’re Dutch.
  虽然一开始这种方法并不是显而易见的，但谁叫你不是Python之父呢。

• Now is better than never. Although never is often better than right now.
  做比不做好，但立马去做有时还不如不做。

• If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
  如果实现很难说明，那它是个坏想法。

• If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
  如果实现容易解释，那它有可能是个好想法。

• Namespaces are one honking great idea – let’s do more of those!
  命名空间是个绝妙的想法，让我们多多地使用它们吧！

原文链接：http://outofmemory.cn/wiki/zen-of-python