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[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications

[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarificationsReinhold Birkenfeld reinhold-birkenfeld-nospam at wolke7.net
Thu Dec 15 16:18:52 CET 2005
Ian Bicking wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On 12/14/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> 
>>>On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 11:13 +1100, Dave Cole wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The only thing I strongly disagree with is the promotion of javaNaming
>>>>to equal footing with python_naming.
>>>
>>>Actually, they're not on equal footing atm.  I happen to agree with you
>>>though.
>> 
>> 
>> It doesn't matter. Many large projects are adopting the camelCase
>> convention, either by choice or by accident. I did a brief review of
>> Zope 3 and Chandler, and while neither is consistent, camelCase
>> prevails (Chandler also has a lot of CapWords method names, wihch
>> suggests they didn't get this from Java -- maybe from C++?).
> 
> Everything that touches wx seems to adopt CapWords method names -- in 
> part (hopefully) or in whole.  Wx's API comes from Windows, and the 
> Microsoft method conventions.

Bad, that. While the Windows API names once made sense when they referred to
standalone functions, not methods, they now look ugly in wx or .NET.

Reinhold

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