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  Re: Python Worst Practices Simon Ward <simon+python@bleah.co.uk> - 2015-02-26 19:36 +0000

#86540 — Re: Python Worst Practices

On 25 February 2015 21:24:37 GMT+00:00, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:45 AM, Mark Lawrence
><breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> 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?
>
>Remove the complaint about id. It's an extremely useful variable name,
>and you hardly ever need the function.

You can add one character and avoid the conflict with "id_" and not require anyone else maintaining the code to think about it. As rare as the conflict is, I think the ease of avoiding it makes the extra character a practical defensive technique. I agree it is not a worst case. 

Simon

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