On 3/21/07, Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote: > > Greg Ewing wrote: > > A tangential question -- why are TemporaryFile and > > NamedTemporaryFile named in TitleCase, when they're > > functions and not classes? > > > > I wondered the same. At first draft of my email I wrote "class" > operating under the assumption that only classes got to be camel-cased. > If I had to guess, the rationale was that they are simply wrappers a > class. Nevertheless, tempfile dates well back before the PEP 8 style > guidelines. I think consistency would dictate that a newly added > function should match the other ones, but I have no strong feelings > about this. I wouldn't bet on that. The ElementTree XML module was added to Python 2.5 and it does not follow PEP 8 style (method names are not words separated by underscores). -- Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro "The universe is always one step beyond logic." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20070321/fd423d0d/attachment.htm
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