Raymond Hettinger <rhettin...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
It was probably true. The issue is how well the words self-separate visually and whether an underscore would create a detrimental mental pause. So fromkeys() and fromhex() read fine and would feel awkward with an underscore. But bitlength causes me a mental double-take when my mind searches for the word separation. It that case, PEP 8 suggests that an underscore be added for clarity. This is probably why Mathematica chose BitLength in titlecase instead of Bitlength. Logic aside, bit_length() just looks and feels better to me. Did you look at the O(lg n) algorithm yet? Any thoughts? _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3439> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
