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title: "Comment by Syed Jafer K on \"Code Smell 188 - Redundant Parameter Names\" | Hashnode"
description: "Nice one. I feel it will also apply to instance variables, class Employee : def __init__ ( self ) : self .employee_first_name = '' to this, class Empl"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/code-smell-188-redundant-parameter-names/63a73864c451e3a99912582b/comment/63a7cf65c39f50da11a5b912"
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Comment [Code Smell 188 - Redundant Parameter Names](https://hashnode.com/posts/code-smell-188-redundant-parameter-names/63a73864c451e3a99912582b)

[Syed Jafer K](https://hashnode.com/@iamsyedjafer)

[Dec 25, 2022](https://hashnode.com/posts/code-smell-188-redundant-parameter-names/63a73864c451e3a99912582b/comment/63a7cf65c39f50da11a5b912)

Nice one. I feel it will also apply to instance variables,

```
class Employee:
    def __init__(self):
        self.employee_first_name = ''
```

to this,

```
class Employee:
    def __init__(self):
        self.first_name = ''
```