Python Worst Practices

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 16:40:31 EST 2015


On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
> Right.  In C and C++, instead of being the first slide, it'd be the first 3
> or 4.  Between header file conflicts (especially good because the stdlib
> itself has many multiply-defined symbols, duplicate header files, and
> contradictory include path patterns)

Yeah, Python has some issues with sys.path and how your local module
can unexpectedly shadow a stdlib one, but at least the stdlib itself
doesn't have any conflicts. I should not ever have to do this dance:

#include <somefile.h>
#undef SOME_SYMBOL
#include <otherfile.h>

But sadly, I do.

ChrisA



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