Probably not a good title to seek upvotes. If it does get upvotes, more programmers get share in your pain 😅
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short variable names, and the only vowel is ‘i’
skibidi = 42I inherited an old Japanese codebase. Tons of stuff was just single-letter variables. Apparently, this used to be at least somewhat common here. I spent a lot of time just updating code to replace vars with something meaningful (and found bonus bugs due to improper scoping with same var names as a bonus). Didn’t have an IDE that would easily do it for me at the time and running something like
sedfelt too risky.from multiprocessing import Lock l = Lock()flake8 … way too ambiguous
