In my opinion, even the best Python programmers, by definition, are incapable of of conforming to established standards, and are therefore incapable of writing maintainable, well-commented code. I have yet to see a python module that was actually well-commented. Not in free software, not in commercial software, not in Mercurial (sorry guys). Here’s a revelatory moment from IRC:<\/p>\n
[21:39] <@tekhedd_> It’s using the Twisted<\/a> python internet libraries. …<\/p>\n [21:56] <@tekhedd_> So, the pb.ClientFactory actually creates S-expression based distributed networking clients. Python programmers just don’t “get” standards and maintainability.<\/p>\n You see, Python programmers are the black sheep, the renegades, the self-taught hackers who live in a world without fences or curly brackets. The noobs who haven’t learned to write quality code yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my opinion, even the best Python programmers, by definition, are incapable of of conforming to established standards, and are therefore incapable of writing maintainable, well-commented code. I have yet to see a python module that was actually well-commented. Not in free software, not in commercial software, not in Mercurial (sorry guys). Here’s a revelatory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,186,185],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-noobs","tag-programming","tag-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[21:39] <@tekhedd_> ray of light
\n[21:39] <@tekhedd_> my god, is it real? It’s been dark so long, I’m so afraid to be disappointed again…
\n[21:41] <@Urvieh> always worth the risk
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> OK, so I’m trying to figure out how the login dialog works, and there’s an object called “pb”.
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> And I’m thinking to myself, this must be a local variable.
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> Then I notice it’s imported from “twisted.spread”
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> it’s listed right after “twisted.banana”
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> and “twisted.jelly”
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> in the twisted docs
\n[21:45] <@tekhedd_> it’s peanut butter, isn’t it?
\n[21:46] <+Sigoya1> O.o
\n[21:46] <@tekhedd_>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 factory = pb.PBClientFactory()
\n[21:46] <@tekhedd_>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 reactor.connectTCP(masterIP,masterPort,factory)
\n[21:46] <@tekhedd_> I’m not making this up.
\n[21:46] <@tekhedd_> oh thank goodness, it stands for “Perspective Broker”
\n[21:46] <@tekhedd_> http:\/\/twistedmatrix.com\/documents\/current\/api\/twisted.spread.html<\/a>
\n[21:47] <@tekhedd_> and of course “jelly” is short for “S-expression-based persistence of python objects”<\/p>\n
\n[21:56] <@tekhedd_> Gosh, lucid code at its best.<\/p>\n