Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2008-09-14, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Second: please do yourself a favour and drop the camelCaseNames. > > Follow PEP 8 <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008> for style > > and naming in your Python code. > > If he finds camelcase more readable and easier to type (as do > I), how is switching to underscores "doing himself a favor"? > > I'm generally in favor of using a consistent naming style > throughout a project, but I don't see why the naming style used > in my source code should be subject to somebody else's > arbitrary standard.
Because the code we write rarely stays isolated from other code. There is an existing convention, and it's better to pick a (sufficiently sane) style convention and stick to it than argue about what the convention should be. > When it comes to writing code intended for the standard library > in the main Python distribution, I would certainly defer to the > existing standard as defined in PEP 8. However, I don't see > any reason that style should be imposed on all everybody else. Who's imposing? I'm saying it's a good idea for everyone to do it, and going so far as to say that one is doing oneself a favour by following the convention. I have no more power than you to "impose" convention on anyone. -- \ “‘Did you sleep well?’ ‘No, I made a couple of mistakes.’” | `\ —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
