Discussion on: Clean, DRY, SOLID Spaghetti

[Jason C. McDonald]

I think you make a lot of great points...largely because you applied common sense and a larger understanding to each of the standards, and that's exactly my point. DRY, SOLID, TDD, and all the rest can be excellent guides. We just have to apply our own judgment. :) (But then, I'm just reiterating - you know all that!)

And yes, composition is almost always better than inheritance. SOLID doesn't state that explicitly, of course, but that's not SOLID's fault. It's one of several guidelines to apply, not a magic bullet!

By the way, that terrible code base was written in Python, although I wouldn't say it was "Pythonic" by any means.

[kip]

"Pythonic" not always mean good readable code, most of the time is apply the syntactic sugar and other advantages that Python offers you to do something, for example List Comprehensions are so good but not always:

This:

def generatorFunction() :
    for number in range(100):
        yield number

Is better than:

generatorFunction = lambda: [(yied(number)) for number in range(100)]

Is only an example, I'm not good to create good examples.

[Jason C. McDonald]

No, "Pythonic" means it applies the "Zen of Python", which puts a high priority on good, readable code.

Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than right now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

But once again, even this must be applied with common sense!

[kip]

I'm always have had different concepts of "Zen of Python" and "Pythonic way", but you are right, I'm agree with you. Thanks for the aclaration!