On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:28 PM, MRAB <pyt...@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 > > Numeric dates can be ambiguous: dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy? The ISO > standard is clearer: yyyy-mm-dd. > > Handling text: "Unicode sandwich". > > UTF-8 is better than legacy encodings. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
