Gabriel Genellina wrote:
Classes represent "things", and class names should be nouns. Functions represent "actions", and their names should be verbs. popen is a good name for a function; Popen is a bad name for a class.
People who don't like Popen should have made this argument when subprocess was being designed (for 2.4) ;-). Or at least a year ago or even 6 month ago when API changes for 3.0 were considered.
Part of the reason for the name is that .Popen completely replaces the popen2, popen3, and popen4 functions, and others (yes, functions, not classes), now gone (3.0) and either replaces or supplement os.popen itself. I would not have liked subprocess.Subprocess. Perhaps Proc would have been okay. PipedProcess is too long. ....
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