Making trade-offs when writing Python code

Posted by bob on Dec 26, 2019 12:39 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By Moshe Zadka
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Software development is a discipline rife with trade-offs. For every choice, there is an equally defensible but opposite choice. Make a method private? You're encouraging copy-paste. Make a method public? You're committing prematurely to an interface. Software developers make hard choices every minute. While all the principles in the Zen of Python cover trade-offs to some extent, the following principles take the hardest, coldest look at some trade-offs.

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