On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > "Normal" programmers spell words the same in code as they do outside of > code, e.g.: > > age > address > length
There's a difference between identifiers and commands, though. I would expect, for instance, that a customer's address is stored in the database in an address table, which will have an id, which I can reference in Python using the name id. (Yes, that mandates shadowing.) But if I need to reference something that the language/library author provides, I expect that to use American spelling, mainly because that's the most common. REXX is somewhat unusual in providing 'center' and 'centre' functions (identical, just like operator.add and operator.__add__), but I always used center() because it felt wrong to use British spelling in language features. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
