On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:37 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> Renaming methods because of PEP 8 (Gustavo, Ian, Jason)
>
> I'm personally not keen on that. I like most of the names as they
> are. abspath(), joinpath(), realpath() and splitall() looks so much
> better than abs_path(), join_path(), real_path() and split_all() in my
> eyes. If someone like the underscores I'll add it to Open Issues.
<PEP8>
Function Names
Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores
as necessary to improve readability.
mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that's already the
prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards compatibility.
Method Names and Instance Variables
Use the function naming rules: lowercase with words separated by
underscores as necessary to improve readability.
</PEP8>
It is very clear. Whether you agree with PEP 8 or not is not relevant
to this discussion. Since this is a completely new module, it should be
correctly named from the start. The "familiarity with os.path argument"
is a very weak one, IMHO.
Plus, the names are full of redundancy. Why abspath(), joinpath(),
realpath(), splitall()? Why not instead: absolute(), join(), real(),
split() ? Remember that they are all methods of a Path class, you don't
need to keep repeating 'path' all over the place[1].
On a slightly different subject, regarding path / path, I think it
feels much more natural path + path. Path.join is really just a string
concatenation, except that it adds a path separator in the middle if
necessary, if I'm not mistaken.
Best regards.
[1] Yes, I'm the kind of guy who hates struct timeval having tv_sec and
tv_usec field members instead of sec and usec.
--
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
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The universe is always one step beyond logic
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