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Replies for: This is a pretty poor example of clear variable names (see Naming Conventions #2 above) # Recommended cities = [“UK”, “USA”, “UAE”] for city...

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Sven Schönherr • • Edited

For loop should also not be indented...

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John McCabe •

There's always a possibility that's an issue with the page formatter for code. I know Confluence can be a bit funny about that if you paste into a code block.

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A5537 • • Edited

Maybe this indent decided to leave the print statement (where it is destined to be)

for x in c:
print(x)

# Recommended
cities = [“UK”, “USA”, “UAE”]
    for city in cities:
        print(city)
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and moved in with that for loop neighbor against all odds.

Seriously, indent really matters in Python. As well as the case (especially for keywords), so Pass instead of pass

# Recommended
def fetch_users(): 
    # do something
    Pass
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will trigger a NameError unless there is a variable named Pass.

And speaking of technical debt, these two kinds of bugs (wrong indentation and case incosistency) in poorly written Python code are sneaky enough to go unnoticed since they may not trigger any error messages in some cases.

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Sebastian Potasiak •

Also, the quotation marks in the cities list are not " (\x22) but “ (\u201C) and ” (\u201D) unicode characters. It would raise SyntaxError.