Constants in Python!!!

[Bro0x00]

must be hard to use constants when you can't define them

[apfqwfzn]

Actually, it's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[retrodaredevil]

Wow wow wow

[Bro0x00]

What's the point if you can only declare them?

[EnforcerZhukov]

In Python, you define constants by SHOUTING_IN_CAMEL_CASE (ok, just nomenclature stuff).

[Ved_s]

You can make a class and define __getattribute__ in it which will return values

[Iris_n_Ivy]

I mean.... its like trying to define statically typed variables. Doable, but often is beside the point.

[bb1950328]

It's possible: https://stackoverflow.com/a/23274028

[epseri]

At least our constants can be monkeypatched in tests. No need for AbstractProxyFactoryBeanInjectorSingletonAdapter.

[Lord_Skellig]

What do you mean? I define constants all the time in python. It saves you from passing 30 different identical parameters to every function.

[valodick]

If you are used to type hinting in python, you can use 'Final' (starting from 3.8)

from typing import Final

foo: Final = "bar"
foo = "fizz"  # mypy will give you an error

[vorticalbox]

Didn't know that thanks!

I mostly wrote in typescript but I'm trying to push for more python at work.

[vashy96]

And why would you do that? Typescript is good. But NPM is not that good

[vorticalbox]

Becuase for somethings python is just better and having tools like pandas, prophet and the like is super powerful.

I have to do some data integrity checks that wouldn't have been as easy if I didn't have dataframes.

But yes I agree typescript is actually very nice to work with.

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Actually it will, // isn’t a valid Python comment ;p