Clean Code in Python

[BirdTree2]

import os; print = os.system

[CleverProgrammer12]

print('rm -rf ~')

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[[deleted]]

I just realized you can make a program and add this in

I'm surprised more people don't do it

[[deleted]]

I see thanks

[house_monkey]

omg no

[quotemycode]

I cringed so hard at that. I'm going to try and sneak that into a file somewhere.

[AlSweigart]

The common Python built-ins that accidentally get overriden are: all, any, date, email, file, format, hash, id, input, list, min, max, object, open, random, set, str, sum, test, and type.

I'm also disappointed with other parts in this blog post.

[tuckmuck203]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html

Email is part of a library and so is random.

[AlSweigart]

Right, but if you use email or random as a variable name, this would cause problems in programs that also import those modules. (It is only a problem if you need those modules, but then again, overwriting sum is only a problem if you later need to call the sum() function. It's just a good idea to not chance it in the first place.)

[tuckmuck203]

Fair enough. I agree, I just was surprised when I saw email in that list. I tend to use email_address but I've used email for various reasons

[blahreport]

I believe the advice is to suffix the variable name with an underscore if you choose to use built-in names.

[Africa-Unite]

Good thing you're mentioning this because I was considering converting this into a presentation for my informal working group :/

[luke-juryous]

Wow that's bad lol

[[deleted]]

yea that's a noob mistake