On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:01 am, Christopher Reimer wrote: > On 5/7/2016 2:22 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Also, be sure you read this part of PEP 8: >> >> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds > Recruiters and hiring managers *are* hobgoblins with with little minds. > And definitely not PEP8-complaint. :) Do you think that recruiters and hiring managers read your code at all, let alone that they read it will an eye to PEP 8 compliance? No recruiter[1] will do this. No recruiter will even know what PEP 8 is. They're looking for technical buzzwords ("ten years experience with Django"), they aren't qualified to judge whether your Django code is good, bad or indifferent. That's up to the client. A hiring manager with a technical background might, once you are in consideration for the job. More likely they will delegate any judgement to a technical manager, or programmer, who may or may not be a hobgoblin with a little mind. There are plenty of programmers who are obsessive about following PEP 8 even when it makes the code worse: mywidget.component['key'] = (mywidget.grippley.count_item(spam or eggs) + 1) (I've met plenty of technical people who are opinionated and badly informed, not just managers. Just last week, I was told by one programmer that Mersenne Twister, the default RNG used by Python, is well-known to be biased, and that "everybody knows" not to use it to choose an item from a list because it is documented "everywhere" as being more likely to choose the first or the last item than any of the others.) [1] Sweeping generalisation. In a world of 7 billion people, there's probably one or two exceptions somewhere. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
