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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! - Code Style (docs.python-guide.org)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm pretty new to Python and discovered the nicely presented PEP8 coding style guide linked in the post. Stumbling onto The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python! has been a very helpful compliment to the official Python Documentaion

Hopefully this post will help others getting familiar with Python.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any dev who pretends Python 2 doesn't exist should probably look around a bit more. Damn legacy code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Seconding this. For someone that doesn't know anything about Python, there are vital aspects of Python 2 that need to be covered.

In the context of learning a language, most of the time, a lower version number doesn't mean that much. In the case of Python 2, there are fundamental incompatibilities - and, as you say, it's still out there, and when your see it, you need to know what that means.

Maybe you don't choose a library or a piece of software if you notice it. Maybe you get a legacy code base dumped on your lap. This shit happens.