Python Worst Practices

[MRAB]

On 2015-02-25 22:59, Joel Goldstick wrote:
 > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:28 PM, MRAB <python at 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

Telephone numbers can also start with zero.

 > >
 > > 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.
 > >