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I like the rules that lays out in this article. However, I don't see his argument against Writing Idiomatic Python. He cherry picked two methods that (correct
by pwaivers 9y ago
I like the rules that lays out in this article. However, I don't see his argument against Writing Idiomatic Python. He cherry picked two methods that (correctly) could have been written better. However, this does not mean that all idioms are bad, and he doesn't provide any examples where using an idiom is sometimes bad and sometimes good.
Additionally, it seems like the word idiom is just re-skinned as a "rule" in this article.
- Finnucane 9y agoYes, I think the problem here is not that the idea of idiomatic Python is not good, but that this book about it is not good.
- dcdanko 9y agoHe provides three examples where an idiom is sometimes bad and sometimes good... The point of the article is just the classic 'foolish consistency is the hobgoblin...'
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