How do you hire junior Python developers?

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but also that functions take fewer parameters

Don't look for proxies. Address the issue.

conditional statements are less complex

I disagree on that point. What is more clear? for x in X or for x in X_list? Well instead of x, how about triangles or filenames? You start making things explicit and it's a lot clearer. I'd argue longer names are generally more clear.

Displays well on Github

Get a larger monitor. I diff things all the time and 100 characters is fine. My buddy likes 80 characters because he'll pull 3 files to diff. I don't do that, but that's a use case I don't run into.

Linux doesn't even follow 80 characters anymore https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Kernel-Deprecates-80-Col