Trey Hunner Readability Counts PyCon 2017

"Speaker: Trey Hunner
Have you found unreadable PEP8-compliant code and wondered how to fix it? Have you ever seen code that was simply a pleasure to read?
If you've ever wondered what makes code easy to read, this talk is for you.
During this talk we'll learn a number of techniques for refactoring code to improve readability and maintainability.
We'll discuss:
- whitespace
- self-documenting code
- modularity
- expectation management
We'll end with a checklist for improving the readability of your own code.
Slides can be found at: speakerdeck.com/pycon2017 and github.com/PyCon/2017-slides"

[@cthoyt]

More talks on coding style are always appreciated. Thanks for the great examples.

[@erinallard8179]

I've been coding in Python for about a year and this has been a great learning tool. I feel like I have a much better understanding of what it means to write "good, clean code." Thanks!

[@walkingintopeople]

Starts at 0:52

[@musicalwanderings7380]

Classic no-nonsense Trey!!

[@stalinthomas9850]

00:00 Introduction 03:21 Structuring Code 05:01Regular Expressions 06:36 Function calls 08:42 PEP 8 09:59 Naming things 16:02 So many functions 18:23 Recap 18:53 Programming idioms 19:26 Clean up 21:04 Lists from lists 22:21 Operator overloading 24:10 Abstract base class 24:24 Shared Data 25:02 Recap 2

[@adriaanbeiertz5933]

This is a great lecture on clean Python code. Thanks Trey!

[@kylewood303]

learned a lot, thanks for sharing

[@tinabu352]

Learned so much from this talk!

[@bobikozov]

thx for that talk dude!

[@JasonRigden]

Readability is so important. Unreadable code is fragile. Fragile code is a huge source of technical debit. If no one can read & grok the code, then how can they debug it?

[@tomeubank3625]

This presentation is very useful, informative and well-presented. It would be even better if the slides were on github (personally preferred) or SpeakerDeck as indicated.

[@TreyHunner]

The slides are on GitHub here: github.com/treyhunner/readability-counts

[@MagnusAnand]

Great tips!

[@randomguy75]

great talk

[@reneebee2388]

Trey, You are the best (y)

[@drew4980]

I feel like the code at 15:15 is a little too dense. Theres also some un needed parenthesis around the 3rd and 4th lines.

[@tianma201211]

Readability is so important

[@TreyHunner]

Slides here: treyhunner.com/readability-counts

[@MarioWenzel]

I feel that most of the presented code would have been much clearer using pythonic expressions or functional programming that what the speaker proposes. That would have been much better in the first place. In some cases the speaker even makes it worse.

[@rautamiekka]

I despise PEP8 in some parts. Python devs created, partially, a very bizarre set of rules.