Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kay Schluehr > wrote: > >> set, int, float, list, object,... >> >> Don't see any of the basic types following the capitalized word >> convention for classes covered by PEP 08. This does not hold only for >> __builtins__ in the strict sense but also for types defined in builtin >> modules like datetime. > > Most built-ins are easy to explain: They were functions long before it > was possible to use them as base classes and stayed lowercase for > backwards compatibility. Don't know about `set` and `object`. I guess > it's foolish consistency!?
Well originally there was sets.Set (uppercase). It became set when it went to being a built-in. -- Michael Hoffman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
