all good things welcome to the end of the booknow that you've made it this fari want to say few words in closing about python' evolution before turning you loose on the software field this topic is subjective by natureof coursebut vital to all python users nonetheless you've now had chance to see the entire language yourself--including some advanced features that may seem at odds with its scripting paradigm though many will understandably accept this as status quoin an open source project it' crucial that some ask the "whyquestions too ultimatelythe trajectory of the python story--and its true conclusion--is at least in part up to you the python paradox if you've read this bookor reasonable subsets of ityou should now be able to weigh python' tradeoffs fairly as you've seenpython is powerfulexpressiveand even fun programming languagewhich will serve as an enabling technology for wherever you choose to go next at the same timeyou've also seen that today' python is something of paradoxit has expanded to incorporate tools that many consider both needlessly redundant and curiously advanced--and at rate that appears to be only accelerating for my partas one of python' earliest advocatesi've watched it morph over the years from simple to sophisticated toolwith steadily shifting scope by most measuresit seems to have grown at least as complex as other languages that drove many of us to python in the first place and just as in those other languagesthis has inevitably fostered growing culture in which obscurity is badge of honor that' as contrary to python' original goals as it could be run an import this in any python interactive session to see what mean--the creed 've quoted from repeatedly in this book in contexts where it was clearly violated on many levelsits core ideals of explicitnesssimplicityand lack of redundancy have been either naively forgotten or carelessly abandoned