On 7/11/2010 3:26 AM, rantingrick wrote:
Another source of asininity seems to be the naming conventions of the Python language proper! True/False start with an upper case and i applaud this. However str, list, tuple, int, float --need i go on...?-- start with lowercase.
This is an anomaly, known to all long-time Pythoneers, due the the history of Python. Before 2.2 and unification of types and classes as new-style classes, those were all type constructor *functions*, not class names. The idea of breaking most every serious Python program on the planet by upper-casing them has been considered and so far rejected.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
