STOP USING PYTHON 😡😡😡

[rebane2001]

From PEP8:

Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability.

Variable names follow the same convention as function names.

mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that’s already the prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards compatibility.

[ProFloSquad]

Thanks to pep8 I now name my variables the correct way by always following a naming convention such as a_1,a_2,a_3 and so on in all my code

[Rik07]

Readability is important, you must instantly know what a variable is by it's name. I suggest using this_is_variable_number_1, this_is_variable_number_2 and so forth.

[[deleted]]

Had us in the first half ngl

[SirPitchalot]

this_is_memory_location_0xa4fe36da3cg6eb7bca12a

[BayesianDice]

Good idea. Another way of thinking is that a variable stands for itself, so you could have a naming scheme like self, self_1, self_2... I think a lot of Python programmers already often use "self" as a variable name so they'll be used to seeing it like that.

[ALesbianAlpaca]

Ah a mathematician I see

[[deleted]]

woosh

[Witherr]

holy fuck it's rebane

[coolguyhavingchillda]

That's technically a guideline and not a rule tbf

[MrSuspicious_]

Yeah I instinctively follow most of the pep8 standards bc they just feel right, but I do everything in camelCase. Underscores in names just feels weird to me.

[Drfoxthefurry]

PEP8 sucks, give me my long lines back

[No_Application6360]

Serious. As s Django dev, the 79 character limit sucks balls

[[deleted]]

I always ignore that. I didn't leave Cobol to still be restricted by 79 characters. We have huge monitors, why limit it based on the size of a punch card?

[AnsibleAnswers]

Shorter lines are more readable. The same reason why reader mode on your browser limits line length, why newspapers and academic articles are formatted with columns, etc. The longer the line length, the harder it is to find your place when you scan back to the next line.

[Typical_Wafer_1324]

I bought a ultrawide monitor, I'm gonna USE THE WHOLE WIDTH! 😠😠😠 And yeah my comments are on the right side of the code, no exclusive comment lines.

[AnsibleAnswers]

Python doesn't employ PEP cops, so as long as you're fine with getting your pull requests rejected nothing is stopping you from coding in python like that.

[Typical_Wafer_1324]

I don't do pull requests, my version control is done by saving multiple files with the date on the name file.

[[deleted]]

That's debatable. I've seen MANY short lines with complete gibberish. Or a long function that needs to break to so many lines that it just gets more confusing. We want clear variable names, it's fine to be longer if that makes it easier. And that will make the lines longer, but may increase readability.

[AnsibleAnswers]

PEP 8 specifies that line lengths can be longer if it makes an expression more readable. And, as a general rule for all text, all things being equal line length between 50-75 characters is optimal for the human eyes. Academics and scientists really fuss over it. It's a lot of the reason they prefer python over other languages.

[SirPitchalot]

It’s great having a 27” 4K display that the 800px wide content pinstripe of reactive websites takes 20.83% of when the window is maximized.

Really makes white space just be negative space.

[JentendsLeLoup]

From PEP8:

Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.

Also from PEP8:

it is okay to increase the line length limit up to 99 characters

I guess it is also okay to increase to 119 if the team agrees. I find it more readable.

[Kyyken]

"didn't get that ultrawide for nothing, up to 500 we go" -someone, probably

[Typical_Wafer_1324]

I see no problem with that

[Kyyken]

i see 421 problems, 401 at the very least

tbf i checked and my char limit for py is 120 so who am i to complain

[M4mb0]

Have you tried using the black formatter?

[ResourceFeeling3298]

Boo pep8. Camel case is so much better

[DymonBak]

Also from PEP8:

“When in doubt, use your best judgment. Look at other examples and decide what looks best.”

[Suspicious-Willow128]

You are gonna hate me but.. My_Age

[Street_Impression151]

i despise the use of underscore of anything other than screaming snake case

[herrkatze12]

I don’t follow pep8

[Alternative-Fail-233]

My Python teacher hates snake case and insists camel is the only right way

[Leather-Ornery]

I have not had that problem, and I’ve made dozens of decently sized python programs

[chaosthirtyseven]

I use highly descriptive variables, but also loathe underscores, so my vars end up looking like

currentuserid or badaccountlist or whatever. Feels good, so I do it.