[dragonwriter]

> For a language where there is supposed to be only one way to do things

That's not what the Zen says, it says that there should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.

That is, for any given task, it is most important that there is at least one obvious way, but also desirable that there should only be one obvious way, to do it. But there are necessarily going to be multiple ways to do most things, because if there was only one way, most of them for non-trivial tasks would be non-obvious.

The goal of Python was never to be the smallest Turing-complete language, and have no redundancy.