Trivia Tuesday: DRY

[Alexander Stevenson]

DRY is a software development principle which is also applicable in many other engineering areas, such as automation, configuration, and CI/CD, to name a few. What does the acronym DRY stand for?

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[alecvenidadev · Accepted solution]

Hey Alex!
From what I learned at my Full-stack course, DRY means Don't Repeat Yourself. In short, this means that if you have code that is repeating certain patterns, syntax, etc. you can make it more legible by refactoring it.

one example off the top of my head--
use a class to not have to repeat the declaration of dictionaries/objects

BAD

pet1 = {"name": "Annie", "species": "Dog"}
pet2 = {"name": "Precious", "species": "Cat"}

DRY

class Pet:
   def __init__(self, name, specie):
        self.name = name
        self.species = species
annie = Pet("Annie", "Dog")
precious = Pet("Precious", "Cat")
etc...

[Alexander Stevenson]

Exactly @alecvenidadev ,

This code will iterate through the object as well:

class Pet:
    def __init__(self, name, species):
        self.name = name
        self.species = species

pet1 = Pet("Precious", "Cat")

for attr, value in pet1.__dict__.items():
        print(attr, value)

If I save the above code to a Python file and run it, the result will be:

name Precious
species Cat

DRY improves efficiency, including resource utilization, security, and readability.