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"Beyond the prevailing code standards, yet another proposal for doing things my way instead of the standard way"

• coldtea 11y ago
  The whole point of the talk went flying over your head. In fact, he proposed the total inverse of what you say. He said, code standards like PEP8 are good, and should be followed. But those are only code formatting standards. The beyond part wasn't about doing things "his way instead of the standard way" but about doing things the Python way (idiomatic Python) instead of ad-hoc or mimicking other languages you're familiar with way. What he showed are common standard Python approaches to solving issues, taking advantage of what Python offers instead of writing in C or Java etc style. Really, your comment couldn't be further from the spirit and content of the talk.
  • pekk 11y ago
    Not at all, when the talk starts out quibbling about the 80-column standard.
    • coldtea 11y ago
      That's just the intro and is said as an aside. Far from being the essense of the talk. (Of course this is already obvious since the 80-column thing is about PEP8, whereas the essense of the talk is how to better structure your code BEYOND PEP8's formatting rules). Not to mention that even PEP8 concedes that you can raise the max line length limit up to 100 if your team agrees.