short variables names, long variable names, nonsense variable names

Pokémon as variable names

@heyheni thanks I needed that

I had a professor in college that if he felt people weren't paying enough attention he would start drawing little pictures for the variable names (this was before emojis were a thing), so you'd have to look at all the white boards to see where the stick figure man was defined and why he was using the address of the duck.

does anyone else use them as a descriptor?

file_output = open(...
fileBuffer = tempfile.SpooledTemporaryFile(...
loopnum = 32768
file-length = len(...

this is just natural for me at this point, do you all not do this?

@Parzi basically. I tend to use very long names sometimes, to keep it very clear what it is.

I prefer descriptive and informative variable name

I prefer names proportional to their scope. Small scope, short names.
Larger scope, more descriptive names.

Variables names in unicode chars