Thanks Hugo,
Do methods like __add__, __del__, count as built-in types? I'm aware of the
rule you explained and use it and that's why when I saw:
class indexer():
def ___getitem__(self, index):
return index ** 2
I thought I was missing some special style, or rule. The class above is take
from Learning Python, and there are several other examples too.
Thanks,
T
Hugo Arts wrote:
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, C.T. Matsumoto <tmatsum...@gmx.net> wrote:
yes,
class Foo: # the book says this is a class header
pass
As for my question it looks like the convention is if a class only has
operator overloading then the class receives a lowercase class name.
If the class has a mix, operator overloading and a normal method then
the class name gets starts with a capital.
It's just a detail, but I wanted to know.
class names should always be capitalized, no matter what kind of
methods they have.
The exceptions to this are the built-in types (int, str, list, dict,
etc.). But if you're writing a class yourself,
capitalize it.
quoting PEP 8:
Almost without exception, class names use the CapWords convention.
Classes for internal use have a leading underscore in addition.
if you want to know something, anything at all about style
conventions, read PEP 8. It's the definitive python styleguide.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
Hugo
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