"Corey Richardson" <kb1...@aim.com> wrote
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Alan Gauld
<alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
Why avoidCamelCase? I actually prefer it to using_non_camel_case
Python appears to use camelCase more than not.
I tend to disagree with that. In the stdlib, as well as the
builtins,
many, many methods are alllowercase, for example str.isdigit() or
socket.gethostname().
Which should, according to PEP8, be get_hostname()(*) and
is_digit()...
The stdlib is a mess of inconsistency. I assume that's why PEP8
seems to get more attention these days - it's been around for ages.
Some modules use CamelCase, some use underscores and
some just use long lowercase names (the worst option! - well
apart from all uppercase like COBOL...!)
(*)hostname could be host_name I guess but Unix tradition
spells it as one word so I've followed that convention...
Alan G
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