In a fair number of cases, Python doesn't follow its own recommended
naming conventions. Changing these things would break backward
compatibility, so they are out of the question for Python 2.*, but
it would be nice to keep these in mind for Python 3K.
Constants in all caps:
NONE, TRUE, FALSE, ELLIPSIS
Classes in initial-caps:
Object, Int, Float, Str, Unicode, Set, List, Tuple, Dict,
and lots of classes in the standard library, e.g.
anydbm.error, csv.excel, imaplib.error, mutex.mutex...
I know these probably look a little funny now to most of us, as
we're used to looking at today's Python (they even look a little
funny to me) but i'm pretty convinced that consistency will be
better in the long run.
-- ?!ng
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