On 09May2013 00:02, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: | On Wed, 08 May 2013 16:20:48 -0400, Roy Smith wrote: | > "A list of FooEntry's" | | "Here come's an S! Quick, jam on an apostrophe!" | | This is called the grocer's apostrophe, and is universally held in | contempt no matter what variant of English you write in. Don't do this. | | The only acceptable use of an apostrophe to make a plural is if the thing | being pluralised is a single letter. E.g. one a, two a's.
Frankly, not even then for me. I spell that "one A, two As". | > "A list of FooEntry instances" | | This is also acceptable, although a little wordy. Do you write "a list of | strings" or "a list of str instances"? How about "a FooEntry list"? -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Yes Officer, yes Officer, I will Officer. Thank you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
