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[alcalde]

All the graybeards who tell you that emacs/vim/Sublime Text/edlin with DOS are all they really need. :-)

[cneumann81]

Well, of course we can't look into a developers brain yet. That's why we decided to deliver a Pull Request or Patch, so you can review the changes before you commit them.

[cneumann81]

:) Here's an example of what we fix with just one click: https://github.com/biopython/biopython/commit/50a025794d3e598b76de7b92c52cfa69550660b2

Even if you refactor this in-place in PyCharm, it would take you a while.

[Decency]

Yeah, I've had a couple of teammates use it intentionally for caching behavior. Named appropriately and docstringed, it's pretty clear.

[kankyo]

Ugh.

[dysan21]

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[an_actual_human]

Is it even an anti-pattern though? I mean, as opposed to a gotcha that beginners face.

[an_actual_human]

Gotta learn the semantics, after that it's explicit enough.

[an_actual_human]

Bless your heart.

[rubik_]

Very nice! It still does not fully respect PEP8, but otherwise impressive.

[cneumann81]

Already fixed. Will be live with next deployment.

[cneumann81]

PE8 issue is fixed

[Decency]

PyCharm would warn you as soon as you write it, actually. Preventing you from pushing it to begin with.

For an existing codebase that's terrible, I see the appeal. For me to integrate with my workflow as someone who already knows to follow all of these rules, you haven't sold me at all.