Ben Finney wrote: > markolopa <marko.lopa...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi Roger, >> > […] >>> Long, descriptive variable names all_in_lower_case >>> Function names all in CamelCase >>> Global names are in ALL CAPS >> yes, pep8 I guess. > > Not quite: it deviates from PEP 8 on function names, which should rather > be ‘lower_case_words_separated_by_underscores’. > > The ‘UPPER_CASE_WORDS_WITH_UNDERSCORES’ form is for “constants”, i.e. > names that indicate they should stay bound to the same value through the > life of the program (which is the closest normal Python programs get to > a “constant” binding). > > The ‘TitleCase’ form should be used only for class names. > > The ‘camelCase’ form is not conformant with PEP 8 at all (which makes me > glad, since it's hideous). >
Heh, see! It's a spiky subject ;) Someday I'm going to found a substantial open source project just so I can force subsequent contributors to format their code the way I like it! *bwahahahaaa* :) Roger. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
