On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 6:27 PM Paul Sokolovsky <pmis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 15:51:37 +1100 > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > [] > > > In my mind, the current front-runners are: > > > > * namespace > > > * ns > > * thing > > * mobject > > * bunch > > Such short generic names shouldn't be used for types added so late in > the language evolution. Those are names for variables. (And lowercase in > general, with the exception of handful(!) core types). > > A typical use is: > > ns = SimpleNamespace() > > Anyone who doesn't agree always has "import as" in their disposal (as a > more structured form of "whatever_i_want = official_descriptive_name"). > > > > * mutableobject > > * attrobject > > > > I've written them all in lowercase, but equally viable would be to > > spell it MutableObject etc. Half of the collections module is each way > > at the moment. > > There's only one lower-case type name in "collections" - deque. Umm, > with some squinting, you can see that as "semi-core" type, like "list".
Two - deque and defaultdict. > namedtuple() is not a type, it's a function. Yes, semantically it's a > type constructor, and somewhere like in Haskell it would follow naming > conventions for types, but in Python, it happens to be just a function, > and happened to follow naming conventions for functions. Just as int used to be a function, not a type. The distinction really isn't all that fundamental (and people periodically ask about issubclass(x, namedtuple), which would depend on it becoming a type after all). > So, hopefully window for the lower-case types is as closed as anytime > (last case was indeed adding "odict" as a builtin alias for > collection.OrderedDict instead of falling for 3.6 mapping algorithmic > fiasco), and all newly added types will follow the established > naming conventions. > I'm fine with it ending up with an uppercase name, as mentioned in the summary a couple of posts back. Doesn't really bother me either way, and I doubt it'll bother most of the people who use it. But a short name, and in collections rather than types, will be a definite improvement. ChrisA _______________________________________________ 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/MV3V7QL4IK7IPILXI2OJC2M3MYREFHWO/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
