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From: Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Python Worst Practices
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:00:25 +0000
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On 26/02/2015 03:05, Dave Angel wrote:
> On 02/25/2015 08:44 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 25/02/2015 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?
>>>
>>
>> Throwing in my own, how about built-in functions should not use "object"
>> as the one and only argument, and a keyword argument at that.
>>
>
> def marry(object = False)...
>
>
> if anybody has any cause to object, let him speak now...
>

Fell off me chair larfing.


-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence