Python Newbie

[piterrr.dolinski at gmail.com]

> To demonstrate that the person who wrote this code was not a good Python 
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> programmer. I hope it wasn't you :-) This person obviously had a very 
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> basic, and confused, understanding of Python.
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> And, quite frankly, was probably not a very good programmer of *any* 
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> language:
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> - poor use of Hungarian notation for variable names;
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> - pointless pre-declaration of values;
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> - redundant comments that don't explain anything.
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> If that code came from the code-base you are maintaining, no wonder you 
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> don't think much of Python! That looks like something I would expect to 
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> see at the DailyWTF.

Hi. Steve, I don't know where you have been over the past couple of days but it is widely known (if the thread title is any indication) that I am indeed very new to Python, but not new to programming in general.

To give a bit of background where I found __str__, I am using a Python IDE called PyScripter. Its Intellisense is full of methods starting and ending with "__", hence the question.

Regarding Hungarian notation, I don't use it in any other language but Python and JS. Call it poor, but it helps me to remember what type a variable is. The redundant comments serve the same purpose. As for "pointless predeclaration", it helps me know where in the code I first started using the variable, so I know there are no references to it before then.

Peter