Is this a "gotcha" in Python?
Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Mon Apr 22 10:53:58 EDT 2019
On 2019-04-20, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> In this specific case, I actually think that "l" is a bad choice, but
> not because it's a single letter - more because there is a very strong
> convention of using "i" for a loop iterator, and the lowercase "l" is
> confusingly similar.
Also, in some fonts it's very diffcult to tell the difference between
"1" and "l".
Misreading or mistyping
foo = l
as
foo = 1
Can result in lots of debugging fun.
The only thing worse than writing code that's hard to understand is
writing code that's easy to incorrectly understand.
Yes, there's a difference. :)
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