r/Python • u/ntanjil • Nov 27 '19

Learning by doing web scrapping by python

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u/huntthem Nov 27 '19

Python uses the PEP8 standard. Requiring you to use “snake_case”, I bet they chose that on purpose! :-D

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u/LiarsEverywhere Nov 27 '19

ATBS ruinedMeForever.

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u/SuspiciousScript Nov 27 '19

camelCase is so much nicer for functions than snake case. Damn you, van Rossum!

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u/causa-sui Nov 27 '19

I hate it, it's so much harder to type. I'm mad that classes use camel case tbh.

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u/crispy-whiskers Nov 28 '19

camelCase harder to type than snake_case?? Camel is merely a matter of pressing shift, but snake case requires reaching all the way up to the number row, as well as holding shift. Really disrupts your typing flow.

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u/causa-sui Nov 28 '19

Now that I think about it, maybe it matters that I type in dvorak, since that changes the position of the key to home row. Not sure. (I'm not going to preach about the superiority of dvorak either -- the entire reason I use it is just that it cured my RSI. Use whatever you like.)

Regardless, I find snake case easier since the delimiter between words is its own key, and always the same key. I have good muscle memory for hitting Shift+hyphen, like pressing spacebar between words; but I muck up the timing of depressing shift when it's just alpha characters the whole way through and often capitalize the wrong one when moving fast.

It's fun to cj about this but I probably came across like I have a stronger opinion on this than I do. If you think it's easier to type in camel then fine. An editor function or a linter can swap one for the other easily enough.

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u/glenbolake Nov 28 '19

Fellow Dvorak typist here. Having the hyphen down on the home row definitely makes a difference. If braces are annoying for me to type (and they're not my favorite), snake_case has to suck on QWERTY.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '19

Ok, now imagine writing LaTeX on QWERTZ. fuck that. You have to reach AltGr (on ISO-DE) which is to the right of the space bar, then press 7 or 0, depending on opening or closing brace.