On Tue, 03 Jun 2014 10:01:26 +0200, Peter Otten wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:05:29 +0200, robertw89 wrote: >> >>> I invoked the wrong bug.py :/ , works fine now (this happens to me >>> when im a bit tired sometimes...). >> >> Clarity in naming is an excellent thing. If you have two files called >> "bug.py", that's two too many. > > In the case of the OP the code is likely to be thrown away once the bug > is found. Putting all experiments into a single folder even with the > overly generic name "bug" would have been "good enough" to avoid the > problem.
Depends on how many "bugs" the OP thinks he has found. (Hint: check on the python bug tracker.) And of course you can't have multiple files in the same directory unless they have different names, so a good naming system is still needed. But as you point out later: >> Imagine having fifty files called "program.py". Which one is which? How >> do you know? Programs should be named by what they do (think of Word, >> which does word processing, or Photoshop, which does photo editing), or >> when that isn't practical, at least give them a unique and memorable >> name (Outlook, Excel). The same applies to files demonstrating bugs. > > Outlook and Excel are only good names because these are popular > applications. If I were to name some private scripts in that style and > not use them for a few months -- I don't think I'd have a clue what > excel.py is meant to do. ... a good naming scheme has to take into account how often you use it. Scripts that you *literally* throw away after use don't need to be named with a lot of care, just enough to keep the different versions distinct while you use them. More generic scripts that you keep around need a bit more care -- I must admit I have far too many scripts called "make_avi" for slightly different video-to-AVI conversion scripts. But at least they're not all called "script.py". Outlook and Excel are memorable names, but if you don't use them frequently, you may not associate the name with the application. In the Python world, we have memorable names like Psyco and Pyrex, but it took me *ages* to remember which one was which, because I didn't use them often enough to remember. (Psycho is a JIT specialising compiler, now unmaintained and obsoleted by PyPy; Pyrex enables you to write C extensions using Python, also unmaintained, and obsoleted by Cython.) [...] > One approach that seems to be working so far is to combine several > scripts into one using argparse subparsers. This results in more > frequent usage which means I can get away with short meaningless names, [...] Very true, but the cost is added complexity in the script. -- Steven D'Aprano http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list