I use sigular, cause my teacher burned in into our heads if we thought different. :D BR, Jason Brower
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 01:31 +0100, Branko Vukelic wrote: > Yeah, this is the pattern I usually use, too. > > On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > >
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