Paul McGuire wrote: > I was under the impression that lower_case_with_underscores was a > dated recommendation, and that recent practice is more inclusive of > mixedCase style identifiers. On the contrary, Steven Bethard > straightened me out, saying that PEP-8 used to accept either style, > but has been amended to accept only lower_case_with_underscores.
Underscores are harder to type than any alphanumeric character. Thus I support their use in situations where difficulty of typing is desirable (e.g., magic method names) and I detest them in all other situations. -- --OKB (not okblacke) Brendan Barnwell "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path, and leave a trail." --author unknown -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list