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Writing clean code in Python

Cédric Teyton on February 08, 2023

Python is a programming language that offers a high level of flexibility. The counterpart is that developers can easily use different tricks that w...
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Horace FAYOMI •

This is a crazy good article for people who want write nice python code.
But please, why the points #10 Use a main() function and #11 Do not use empty lists as default arguments, I mean which issue might occurs if we do themand in which circumstances ?

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Dimitri Merejkowsky • • Edited

Regarding the main() function:

  • having a main() function gives a scopes for lots of variables which would otherwise be globals - and having less globals is often a win ;)
  • having a separate main() function makes it easy to import your module to do something else with it (like write some tests)

Regarding the default arguments : it's all about the principle of least astonishment see :
this nice answer on stack overflow

PS:

This is a crazy good article

Thanks. This is very much appreciated :)