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The Zen of Python

    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.
    Sparse is better than dense.
    Readability counts.
    Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
    Although practicality beats purity.
    Errors should never pass silently.
    Unless explicitly silenced.
    In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
    There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
    Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
    Now is better than never.
    Although never is often better than *right* now.
    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.
    Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

Easter Egg

    >>> import this

To get vim to interpret tab
as an ``indent'' command instead of an insert-a-tab command, do this:

set softtabstop=2

To set the mod-N indentation used when you hit the tab key
in vim (what Emacs calls c-basic-offset), do this:

set shiftwidth=2

To cause the TAB file-character to be displayed as
mod-N in vi and vim (what Emacs calls tab-width),
do this:

set tabstop=4

To cause TAB characters to not be used in the file for compression,
and for only spaces to be used (what emacs calls
indent-tabs-mode), do this:

set expandtab

Use the > command. To indent 5 lines, 5>>. To mark a block of lines and indent it, Vjjj> to indent 3 lines (vim only). To indent a curly-braces block, put your cursor on one of the curly braces and use >%.

If you're copying blocks of text around and need to align the indent of a block in its new location, use ]p instead of just p. This aligns the pasted block with the surrounding text.

WinMain has a number of different jobs:





1. Register the window classes to be used by the program
2. Create any Windows used by the program
3. Run the message loop