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I’m not sure I agree with this. If anything, a diversity of implementations coexisting is against the basic principles of Python.

> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.

- PEP20 - The Zen of Python



Apparently this is itself a self-referential joke because of the two ways the dashes are spaced for that sentence and then again differently a third time at the end ….


Yet python has two ways of writing string literals (single quote and double quote)




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