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		andreasvc on July 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Good Python codebases to read? PEP 8 itself has the quote "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." It is not intended as a prescriptive standard that everyone needs to follow, just a recommendation.

raverbashing on July 17, 2015 [–]

Yeah, I know that, you need to tell everybody else

I'd rather have Norvig's code solving some IA problem than some perfectly compliant PEP-8 code solving an issue in a naive way

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