A reviewer on my first Python script told me my variable names were "a crime scene," and yeah, he was right

Simon Lee · 2026-09-21T01:40:05.507771+00:00

I had stuff like x2, temp, and dataFinalFINAL sitting in a 40 line script that counted words in a text file, and he said to just name things what they actually are, so now I write stuff like word_count and cleaned_line and I can actually read my own code a week later, does anyone else have a naming habit they had to break?

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