On 2021-02-18 at 06:21:19 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 1:53 AM Ricky Teachey <ri...@teachey.org> wrote: > > > > I would personally love for SimpleNamespace to get a shorter name and > > become a built-in. > > Okay. Let's start bikeshedding. If SimpleNamespace were to become a > builtin, what should its name be? It needs to be short (obviously), > but not TOO short, and it needs to be at least somewhat descriptive, > and it needs to not cause confusion with "object". Ideally, it should > get a name that's unlikely to conflict with names already in frequent > use. > > * namespace > * ns > * Thing > * dump > * plunkit > > I'm not a fan of any of those, but let's see how inspired other people are :) stuff (thank you, George Carlin!) bag Using a initial lower case letter makes it feel more built in, at the expense of likely breaking more existing code. Using an initial capital letter makes it feel more like a class, which may or may not be a good thing. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GFEWKTMWR5VJJSH2LP6XC2CLBNMDRJXX/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
