Unfortunately PEP 8 never really took off naming-wise, so we're mostly following the "reuse the naming scheme from existing code in the same module" rule, and I think there lowercase wins, thanks to defaultdict.
Traditionally, the all lowercase name referred to a C type. The other classes in collections are named Counter, UserDict, UserList, UserString, MutableMapping, etc. Besides, the lowercase/uppercase distinction helps us distinguish functions from classes. This is the way I've see every Python book do it since the dawn of time. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
