On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Reinhold Birkenfeld wrote: > Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > Constants in all caps: > > NONE, TRUE, FALSE, ELLIPSIS > > That's ugly.
I know it looks ugly to you now. But there's a good reason why we use capitalization for class names -- anyone reading code who comes across a CapitalizedName can be reasonably certain that it refers to a class. It's a helpful way to express the intended usage. And, like it or not, None, True, False, and Ellipsis aren't classes. > In fact, I like it that the basic Python functions I didn't say anything about renaming functions. Functions in lowercase are one of the naming conventions that Python does follow consistently. > and most of the types are all-lowercase. That's just not true, though. (Or at least it depends on what you mean by "most" and by "types".) The types in the built-in module are in lowercase, and the vast majority of the other types aren't. -- ?!ng _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
