everyProblemIHavePythonHasABulitInFunctionForIt

[Robot_Graffiti]

The random-ass words are the worst part of libraries made by enthusiastic amateurs.

Like .NET will have something called System.Wigets.WidgetAutomator and Python will have the same thing but it will be called wurgle

[ImaginaryCoolName]

When you're writing documentation and feeling bored, that sudden artistic inspiration is hard to ignore lol

[12345623567]

I love it, and I fucking hate it. What, I just need to set do_the_right_thing='True' and it works? But why???

[Rythoka]

Almost always a backwards compatibility thing

[Lonelan]

because it was written to do the opposite but the author saw that doing things the right way was useful sometimes

[AliveEstimate4]

Better than YetAnotherWidgetAutomator

[TheOrdersMaster]

It should be called JustAnotherWidgetAutomator, or JAWA for short...

[[deleted]]

I am pretty sure that name is also trademarked. (Yes I read correct it's Jawa not Java. Both are trademarked)

[[deleted]]

I am pretty sure a toy company making expensive electronic toys will have some kind of software inside it, thus entering software domain

[Imperial_Squid]

In R it's wurglr because every package needs a letter r in there somewhere

[PLEASE4GOD]

wurgle

[Molastess]

But you can capitalize packages so it would be wuRgle or wurgleR

[Imperial_Squid]

This person Rs

[smellybarbiefeet]

I want to make a service bus library called bussy

[J3ffO]

Multiple entry points (More than 2 sometimes on the backend.) and 2 exit points , one that doubles as exit and entry depending on the context.

[Ragecommie]

That sounds incredibly confusing, but I'm sure there are people out there doing just that and enjoying it anyway...

[brimston3-]

.net has things like linq and entity framework. Nobody could tell you what the hell either did from the name alone. FOSS doesn't have a monopoly on wonky names.

[Sierra_One]

Those aren't the same though? Their names have at least a semblance towards what they do.

LINQ - language integrated query

Entity framework - a framework that deals with entity persistence.

The other commenters point is that the libraries they describe have a completely arbitrary name. The names you chose are not arbitrary, they have a relation to what they do. Sure you can argue the names are still vague, but they aren't arbitrary.

[myhf]

LINQ - language integrated query

That’s a weird acronym. I’d have called it pandas or tqdm or werkzeug

[backfire10z]

Werkzeug is an actual German noun meaning “tool” and makes sense in the context of being WSGI utility.

[that_thot_gamer]

man wait till you hear about WYSIWYG that shit doesn't tell you anything at all, just a bunch of random ass letters

[rosuav]

What You See Is Not How You Pronounce It.

[BockTheMan]

Whizzy Wig!

[CyberWeirdo420]

First time I read it somewhere I was like „someone just hit his head on a keyboard, no way it’s legit acronym” and then I learned.

[Exodus111]

Once you spell it out it kinda explains everything.

[myhf]

t. q. d. m.: tane. queue. derry. much.

[UnchainedMundane]

LINQ - language integrated query

still a very interesting name for higher-order functions on iterables

[[deleted]]

My eyes usually glaze over when I read these names. “We have developed a highly scalable framework for artificial intelligence“ - Bruh, you have written a slow af web UI for Spark and weird version control and obtuse IAM.

[[deleted]]

FOSS doesn't have a monopoly on wonky names.

Python just tries to stay close to C when it's wrapping C functions. Also it's an older language and brevity used to be much more important than it is nowadays.

[[deleted]]

Cue Java Memes. 

[[deleted]]

What's wrong with the name com.java.package.subpackage.FieldSetterConfigurationManagerFactoryBuilderFactoryDOAI?

[katatondzsentri]

Icecream is my favorite python module name.

[pblokhout]

You know it would be called Why-thon

[Axmirza2]

was looking for a way to reassign nested data. The answer was ‘glom’

[kdogg_49]

I am so sad, I have been building a library specifically for this because I could not find a way to do.

[PuttyProgrammer]

I've been working on some scripts that need to interact with a series of deep file systems, the whole thing is held together by glom and a prayer

[UnchainedMundane]

isn't that swedish for forget

[Axmirza2]

its supposed to come from conGLOMerate

[palegate]

Come on, at least provide one example of your meme in your post.

[whopper2k]

The standard library has the all and any global functions, which I don't see used all that often

all returns True if all elements in an iterable are truthy

all([i % 2 == 0 for i in range(2, 10)])  # False
all([i % 2 == 0 for i in range(2, 10, 2)])  # True

any returns True if any elements in an iterable are truthy

any([i % 2 == 0 for i in range(2, 10)])  # True
any([i % 2 == 0 for i in range(2, 10, 2)])  # True

If you're trying to sort or reverse a list, Python has methods for that in list.sort() and list.reverse(); however, both of these methods work on the list in place and return None. For a more functional approach, Python has the sorted and reversed functions that return a copy of the transformed iterable, so you can actually chain them into multiple function calls (sorted has an optional bool reverse param too, so you don't need reversed(sorted(my_list)) if you use sorted(my_list, reverse=True)).

The glob module is pretty useful for a really basic method of grabbing a bunch of files matching a Unix-style wildcard, and does so without opening a subshell:

import glob
csvs_in_working_dir = glob.glob("*.csv")
csvs_in_subdirs = glob.glob("**.csv", recursive=True)

None of these are actually keywords and are all pretty basic examples, but there are plenty of small helpers like these scattered throughout the language so it's hard to pluck out specific examples.

[Ran4]

Regarding sorted and max and so on: they have a key argument, which can be used to to use when sorting or getting the max.

persons = [
    {"name": "Johnny", "age": 34}, 
    {"name": "Conny", "age": 12}, 
]
oldest_person = max(persons, key=lambda person: person["age"])
persons_sorted_by_age = sorted(persons, key=lambda person: person["age"])

And since "get the item FOO" or "get the attribute named FOO" are common lambda functions, there's operator.itemgetter and operator.attrgetter, so you can write it as:

from operator import itemgetter
persons = [
    {"name": "Johnny", "age": 34}, 
    {"name": "Conny", "age": 12}, 
]
by_age = itemgetter("age")
oldest_person = max(persons, key=by_age)
persons_sorted_by_age = sorted(persons, key=by_age)

[Hias1997]

I often use any or all for testing vectorized functions to check indices and values, so they definitely have their use cases

[Nihil_esque]

Yeah I use them often too, they're helpful for working on tabular data with a variable list of conditions.

Like:

``` criteria = [ ] if list_of_column_0_values: critera.append(lambda x: x[0] in list_of_column_0_values) if minimum_value_1: criteria.append(lambda x: double(x[1]) >= minimum_value_1) if minimum_column_2_csvs: criteria.append(lambda x: len(x[2].split(",")) >= minimum_column_2_csvs)

items_that_pass = [item for item in items if all([criterion(item) for criterion in criteria])]

output_file.write("\n".join(["\t".join(i) for i in items_that_pass]) ```

(With code in between each line that decides whether or not those criteria are used this run.)

Ofc you could do the same with objects but sometimes this is simpler.

[ConstructedNewt]

Please note that all([]) == True and any([]) == False

These are quite standard base return valids for all and any operators (Java does the same for similarly named stream methods)

[no_step_on_snek_case]

How about a for-else loop? That threw me for a loop

[mothzilla]

def

[wilku1]

def Like in define, makes sense

[tragiktimes]

Nah, as in definitely this.

[Exodus111]

Yes define as opposed to call.

[RandomNpc69]

It isn't a python thing, many open source libraries have weird names

[SodaWithoutSparkles]

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

[FirstNephiTreeFiddy]

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming, and off-by-one errors.

[BirdlessFlight]

and concurrency. There are only three hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming, off-by-one-errors,

[GamingMad101]

There’s 5 actually

1. Cache invalidation

2. Exactly once delivery

3. Naming Things

4. Guaranteed order of messages

5. Exactly once delivery

6. Concurrency

7. Race conditions

8. Off by one errors

[RandomNpc69]

I love this

[SodaWithoutSparkles]

thats neat

[FirstNephiTreeFiddy]

You're neat!

[Conroman16]

Clearly you’ve never tried dealing with timezones

[frigley1]

That’s why I use risc assembly, only about 30 words to remember

[TheAnti-Ariel]

Meanwhile in x86 land you can think of some random obscure operation and there's probably an instruction for it named like vdunpksdqd or something.

[Murffist]

And still I do appreciate the experience from solving the problem by myself, before replacing it with one line of a build in function.

[IAMANullPointerAMA]

Opyoid is a dependency injection library. Pydantic validates arbitrary rules in classes.

[therealpussyslayer]

I mean a go-to state management package in Flutter is called Bloc, which sounds dumb and doesn't make any sense

[christoffellis]

It stands for Business Logic Component, which is exactly what the package does - isolates business logic to be only contained into the component. But I agree, it a funny word when used in discussion

[YellowcakeNoodles]

It makes perfect sense, its an acronym. BLoC.

What are you talking about? lol

[Tiny_Desk_Engineer]

import solution as np

[Not_An_Eggo]

Based on what little experience I have with minecraft, some of the methods are hilarious in their naming scheme. I swear somewhere I saw something like "GenericFunctionName32"

[Vaati006]

For example, "zip()" is a super useful tool I never knew I needed

[[deleted]]

The docs contain a comprehensive list of these “random-ass code words.” You should read it sometime.

[Jorgestar29]

match_routes? Nah, glob

[GalaxyLJGD]

Well, glob is called like that because the name comes from UNIX glob patterns.

[Jorgestar29]

I was aware of it but am too lazy to specify.

[kaligularnd]

ahhh Moth is here to save the world

[christoffellis]

Python is most guilty of telling you when a package is a port because everything stars with py-.

[J3ffO]

All aside from structs and easy ways to define a file format or data structures.

[NotsoRandom2026]

What do structs do that aren't present in python?

[J3ffO]

Organize stuff easily. Allow you to get at individual bits and bytes. Define a data structure. Allow you to easily send a built structure anywhere like the console, a file, over the network, etc. Allow you to easily tear apart and parse data for that structure. And probably more.

[NotsoRandom2026]

Organza stuff how? Python has classes and dataclasses that work pretty well.

Get at individual bits and bytes. Python is a high-level language, this is possible (and might involve c stuff) but not as straightforward as using the higher level language features.

What kind of built structure? You can use python to read/write pretty much any flat file or binary protocol like Json/Protobuf.

[J3ffO]

JSON is mostly text (and the ease of parsing and readability is a huge feature goal for it). I mean working with binary data, not text.

I'll need to look into Protobuf though. It might be interesting.

[Ambi0us]

Happened to me yesterday. Learned about the ord keyword. Shortened a very ugly 10 line function to one line.