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I believe that many of the arguments we have around software development practices could be avoided by the simple understanding that all of our mantras need to be understood as proverbs and not laws. If you understand proverbs, then you’ll know that every proverb has an equal and opposite proverb. So, that means it’...

Naming conventions can make a big difference to maintenance issues in software projects. This post is about how we can use the great introspection capabilities in Python to help enforce naming conventions in Django projects. Contents Let’s start with an example problem and the naming convention we’re going to use to...