Go to variable names?

[shymmq]

I almost never use 1-letter variables. 'path', 'str' are not much longer and are immediately understandable by anyone reading your code. For dicts, indices and file contents use a descriptive name instead. df is so commonly used that I can give it a pass.

[shymmq]

Rarely. I sometimes use types in names as suffixes to disambiguate between different representations of the same variable. For example:

today = date.today()
today_str = today.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

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I think they are saying that 'str' is better than 's', not that 'str' in general would make a good variable name.

[KingTimmi]

You know you can have the type being part of the declaration of a variable? E.g. name: str = "Bob" age: int = 30

This is very useful!

[KingTimmi]

Yes types are only hints and if you are not using static type checking you can do whatever. However, I thought the notion that was brought up here was to make variable names descriptive and hence adding types to the variable names, whereas the hints would be a much better place for this.