Re: Python Worst Practices

From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Python Worst Practices
Date	2015-02-26 20:04 +0000
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On 2015-02-26, alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:34:29 +0000, MRAB wrote:
>> On 2015-02-25 22:59, Joel Goldstick wrote:
>>> 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

I should hope so, because US zip codes can also contain a hyphen.

>> Telephone numbers can also start with zero.
>
> unless you are performing maths on it data that is made up of numbers 
> (zip code, tel number, house number etc) is still only text & should be 
> stored as a string.

And if you _are_ performing maths on postal codes, telephone numbers
and house numbers, something is seriously wrong and it probably
doesn't matter how you represent things.

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Re: Python Worst Practices MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-02-25 23:34 +0000
  Re: Python Worst Practices alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-02-26 19:32 +0000
    Re: Python Worst Practices Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-26 20:04 +0000

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