Clément Robert

Here's a hill I'll die on: "#Pythonic" is a meaningless word.

People will use it to justify any, and sometimes incompatible formatting preferences.
"Idiomatic #Python" should be what it stands for, which has nothing to do with formatting. Even then, it sounds much too dogmatic to my taste. Good design doesn't need pseudo justifications like "that's the way we've always done it"; only poor quality code does.

Mar 19 at 9:27amWeb
Show threadWolf3d ago
@neutrinoceros I use the word to mean syntax/mechanism more than format, e.g., this is a place to use a comprehension; this is a place to have a default parameter value of None rather than an empty dict; this is a place to use a defaultdict; this is a place to add an `if` in your comprehension that tests if the value is already seen and also adds it to the already seen set, etc. Let ruff or black or whatever worry about formatting.
Show threadClément Robert3d ago
@YesJustWolf that makes sense, but my sense is that the meaning is lost unless *everyone* use it the same way.