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A number of these answers are highly unidiomatic, symptoms of people coming from another language to Python. Trying to shoe horn one language's patterns into an
by hartror 11y ago
A number of these answers are highly unidiomatic, symptoms of people coming from another language to Python. Trying to shoe horn one language's patterns into another is fraught with problems, not only are you going to be less effective in the new language but experienced coders of that language are going to hate working with your code.
Raymond Hettinger's PyCon 2015 talk "Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code" has an excellent example of a Java -> Python case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
- msellout 11y agoWhich answers in particular? I thought most of the answers were quite prescient of features that would be introduced to the standard library some years later.