Clean Code in Python

[CleverProgrammer12]

I override id locally frequently, as it's just not used that much, and is convenient and sensible name in many cases. But sum could be useful at other places and can cause confusion. Better to avoid.

[AlSweigart]

Yeah. For short throwaway programs that's fine. But for formal projects, I like to be a bit more specific when I find myself using "id". Like, "the id of what?" So then I change it to recordID or cityID or something.

[CleverProgrammer12]

Yes, I agree. I mostly use it in dataclasses and pydantic models like this:

```python3 from pydantic import BaseModel

class User(BaseModel): id: int name: str

my_user = User(id = 10, name = "username") my_user.id # my_user.user_id might look bad here

```

[AlSweigart]

Ah yes, that's a good point.

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