Re: [Tutor] variable naming conventions
In a message of Sat, 15 Aug 2015 18:24:53 -0700, D Wyatt writes: It seems every book I read these days uses camel case for variable names in Python. I was once told that using underscores is preferred. Is there a preference in the Python community or does it really matter? I'd like to instill good habits while I'm learning. Thanks in advance, -- Deb Wyatt in WA The Python Community is too large now to have only one preference. People's preferences for CamelCase or this_uses_underscores is usually language independent -- if you prefer it when you are using language X, you probably prefer it when you are using langauge Y, too. The Python Standard Library, for the most part, uses underscores for variable names and CamelCase for class names. See PEP 008 for 'preferred Python Style' -- such as it is, but be aware that if you join a project it is more important to follow the conventions used there than to hop up and down saying 'This is not PEP 008 !' Laura ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] variable naming conventions
Laura Creighton l...@openend.se writes: The Python Standard Library, for the most part, uses underscores for variable names and CamelCase for class names. Note a sharp distinction between camelCaseNames, which the Python community eschews, versus TitleCaseNames, which are embraced for names of classes. See PEP 008 for 'preferred Python Style' -- such as it is, but be aware that if you join a project it is more important to follow the conventions used there than to hop up and down saying 'This is not PEP 008 !' Yes. If you're looking for a style guide, choose PEP 8, because your style will then be maximally familiar to others when you inevitably need to collaborate with some other people. If you're joining a community that doesn't have consistently-enforced, coherent conventinos, make a strong push for PEP 8 for the same reason. But if you're joining an existing community that has chosen a coherent convention which it enforces consistently, go with that. -- \ “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!” | `\—Vroomfondel, _The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy_, Douglas | _o__)Adams | Ben Finney ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] variable naming conventions
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 9:24 PM, D Wyatt fiberfo...@gmail.com wrote: It seems every book I read these days uses camel case for variable names in Python. I was once told that using underscores is preferred. Is there a preference in the Python community or does it really matter? I'd like to instill good habits while I'm learning. Thanks in advance, -- Deb Wyatt in WA ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor lower case. underscores -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] variable naming conventions
On 16/08/2015 02:24, D Wyatt wrote: It seems every book I read these days uses camel case for variable names in Python. I was once told that using underscores is preferred. Is there a preference in the Python community or does it really matter? I'd like to instill good habits while I'm learning. Thanks in advance, If it's your code for your use do whatever you like. I prefer camel case as it saves reaching for the SHIFT-MINUS combination, others detest it. Even the famous PEP 8 (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) is only a guide. However if I was working on a project in collaboration with others I would certainly expect to stick with the standards that the project insisted on, even if I didn't like them personally. Anybody who deliberately ignores standards in this situation should be hung, drawn and quartered after spending an extremely long amount of time in agony in The Comfy Chair :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
Re: [Tutor] variable naming conventions
On 15Aug2015 18:24, D Wyatt fiberfo...@gmail.com wrote: It seems every book I read these days uses camel case for variable names in Python. I was once told that using underscores is preferred. Is there a preference in the Python community or does it really matter? I'd like to instill good habits while I'm learning. PEP 8 is lowercase with underscores for normal variables. Class names tend to be CamelCase. I try to follow this. One advantage in staying with this is that you share this convention with the stdlib and with a lot of other Python code, which make it easier for you to read because it aligns with your own habits. Ideally, anyway. If you're not invested in another style, and not working in someone else's codebase with its own conventions, try PEP 8. Cheers, Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au Oh, what tangled webs we weave, when first we practice to deceive. And when we've practiced for awhile, How we do improve our style!- Dorothy Parker ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
[Tutor] variable naming conventions
It seems every book I read these days uses camel case for variable names in Python. I was once told that using underscores is preferred. Is there a preference in the Python community or does it really matter? I'd like to instill good habits while I'm learning. Thanks in advance, -- Deb Wyatt in WA ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
