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Yep, but you can catch that and say sorry the id is in the wrong format. Easier to ask for forgiveness then permission.

• brazzy 9y ago
  That's wrong on so many levels.
• pjmlp 9y ago
  I rather have the compiler do that for me.
• hasenj 9y ago
  That's one of the biggest pain points. You look at code and you have no idea what is what. You have to be on your toes ALL THE TIME! Even when you are editing a method on a class you cannot safely assume that all the properties will exist because someone can come along and create an instance of the class in a non-standard way such that a property you expect to always exist will not exist in that one situation.
  • wyldfire 9y ago
    > someone can come along and create an instance of the class in a non-standard way shrug just document the interface and stick to it. If you want to keep things simple, create data structures using namedtuple. You get really sane objects that are definitely POLA [1] compliant. > You look at code and you have no idea what is what. You should consider type hints [2] and/or docstrings [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishmen... [2] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html [3] https://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html https://docs.python.org/devguide/documenting.html
    • hasenj 9y ago
      Our project at work is using 3.4 and full of legacy code, and typical python code always has something astonishing. I always use type hints when I write new code. Because 3.4 has no type hints for class member declarations I end up writing constructors that take parameters then assign them to self. This way PyCharm will properly detect the type of class members.