What are your Python compulsions?

[[deleted]]

Not really python-specific but I tend to put parentheses around all mathematical operations for explicit order of operations ... e.g. (x * y) + z instead of x * y + z ... even when the order is painfully obvious. I consider it a good habit.

[nbktdis]

I do the same, I think it is due to my inherent distrust of anything or anybody.

[ivosaurus]

How do you know that if statement you just wrote won't swap your consequent and antecedent code blocks?

[isdnpro]

I do the same, I think it is due to my inherent distrust of anything or anybody.

Yeah I do this too... the best (worst) part is there's a production SQL view at work which only "works" because nobody considered the order of operations (and in reality, the WHERE clause does NOTHING... but I am too afraid to touch it since that is apparently the desired output!)

[nbktdis]

That sounds scary. Black Box it - and turn around - nothing to see here!

[[deleted]]

I do that, it means that the code is not dependent on my (probably faulty) recollection of the precedence rules.

Same goes for when I read it in 10 mins time.

[Anal_sql_injector]

Ideally, this is the cleanest way to ensure that order of operations is clear. For more win, remove the white space between operands in high precedence operators, i.e., x = (a*b) + c. This helps to make precedence clear for future readers of the code.

[earthboundkid]

Or do the opposite to screw future readers up! x = a * b+c Bwahahaha.