Paragraph-long descriptions? How much is enough and when is it too much? How to comment code is a perennial subject of debate for programmers, one that developer Zachary Voase recently jumped into ...

Commenting your code is good practice if you want to help other people understand what you’ve written. This makes it crucial to learn how to comment in Python if you work on a big team.

Peter looks at how rewriting some complex code -- purely to make it easier to read -- eliminates the need for writing comments. He even adds a comment to some code. In a previous column, I discussed ...