On 04/14/2013 02:50 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
Quirky question time!When you read out a qualified name, eg collections.OrderedDict, do you read the qualifier ("collections dot ordered dict"), or do you elide it ("ordered dict")? I ask because it makes a difference to talking about just one of them: ... or possibly a collections.OrderedDict... ... or possibly an collections.OrderedDict... Written, the latter looks completely wrong; but if the name is read in its short form, with the "collections" part being implicit, then "an" is clearly correct! What do you think, experts and others?
Explicit is better than implicit. ;) "collections dot ordereddict" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
