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On 2015-02-25 20:45, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> http://www.slideshare.net/pydanny/python-worst-practices
>
> Any that should be added to this list?  Any that be removed as not that bad?
>
We don't have numeric ZIP codes in the UK, but the entire world has
numeric telephone numbers, so that might be a better example of numbers
that aren't really numbers.

Numeric dates can be ambiguous: dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy? The ISO
standard is clearer: yyyy-mm-dd.

Handling text: "Unicode sandwich".

UTF-8 is better than legacy encodings.