I prefer singular for the Object models and plural for the tablenames. class Person: __tablename__ = 'people'
Since the table contains many of the records, but an object instance will only contain one of those rows. -- Thadeus On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Branko Vukelic <bg.bra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:48 PM, pbreit <pbreitenb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry for the newbie, religious question but what is the preference in > > web2py for table names, plural or singular? Most of the docs seem to > > indicate singular since that seems to make more sense in code (and you > > don't really use SQL all that much). But I did see some examples with > > plural. > > +1 for plural, just to make the discussion more interesting. :) > > Anyway, the reason for plurals is: it's a table, so it contains many > records for something. > Reason for singular is: ... it looks better in the API. > > singular in an API example: > > get.people.last() vs Get last person > get.person.last() vs Get last person (more similar?) > > -- > Branko Vukelić > > bg.bra...@gmail.com > stu...@brankovukelic.com > > Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ > Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ > Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) > I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny > > Gimp Brushmakers Guild > http://bit.ly/gbg-group >
