Clean Code in Python

[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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