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| References | <mclca6$iie$1@ger.gmane.org> <54EE3E6A.5010204@mrabarnett.plus.com> |
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| Date | 2015-02-25 17:59 -0500 |
| Subject | Re: Python Worst Practices |
| From | Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.19220.1424905154.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:28 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > 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. US zip codes get messed up with ints because many have a leading zero. I use strings > > 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. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com
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Re: Python Worst Practices Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 17:59 -0500
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