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== Being Pythonic ==

One of the principles, "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it", can be referenced as the "Pythonic" way.<ref name=":0" /> The official definition of "Pythonic" is:<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Glossary |url=https://docs.python.org/3/glossary.html#term-Pythonic |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=Python Documentation |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|This definition below is directly quoted to preserve its definition. So as is, it is not self-contained valid Python to run without errors.}}

<blockquote>An idea or piece of code which closely follows the most common idioms of the Python language, rather than implementing code using concepts common to other languages. For example, a common idiom in Python is to loop over all elements of an iterable using a <code>for</code> statement. Many other languages don’t have this type of construct, so people unfamiliar with Python sometimes use a numerical counter instead:

<syntaxhighlight lang="python">

for i in range(len("food")):

print("food"[i])

</syntaxhighlight>

As opposed to the cleaner, Pythonic method:

<syntaxhighlight lang="python">

for piece in "food":

print(piece)

</syntaxhighlight>