Common mistakes in Python

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Python is a powerful language that gives the programmer simple and readable code and a lot of liberty. That liberty can turn against you if you don't know some particularities. Here they are:

Misspelled variable name

Sometimes copy and paste can be better. In Python, you need to be careful not to misspell a variable name because you can create another variable instead. In the example bellow, the content of "my_variable" will always be 0:

my_variable = 0

for i in range(0,len(some_int_list)):

    if some_int_list[i] % 5 == 0:

        my_variable = 0

    else:

        my_varaible = 1 # intended misspell

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