Clean Code in Python

YAGNI

YAGNI (short for You Ain't Gonna Need It) is an idea you might want to keep in mind very often when writing a solution if you do not want to over-engineer it.

We want to be able to easily modify our programs, so we want to make them future-proof. In line with that, many developers think that they have to anticipate all future requirements and create solutions that are very complex, and so create abstractions that are hard to read, maintain, and understand. Sometime later, it turns out that those anticipated requirements do not show up, or they do but in a different way (surprise!), and the original code that was supposed to handle precisely that does not work. The problem is that now it is even harder to refactor and extend our programs. ...