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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:59:10 -0500
Subject: Re: Python Worst Practices
From: Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
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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.
>
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