Bad function names can increase costs

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Bad function names can increase costs

This code insight counts one violation each time the name do not complies with:

[a-z_][a-z0-9_]{2,}$

  • underscore allowed
  • lowercase

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Why you should care

The name of the function does match the naming convention. This error is a stylistic warning. The code will execute. But you can improve the readability of the code by renaming the function to match the following regular expression: [a-z_][a-z0-9_]{2,}$.

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CAST recommendations

References

https://www.quantifiedcode.com/knowledge-base/maintainability/Avoid%20using%20%22non-Pythonic%22%20function%20names/7B7tSQOF

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