[Python-Dev] Naming nit

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Aug 12 06:17:07 CEST 2004


> [Raymond Hettinger]
> > > For PEP 292, should the class be Template() or template()?
> > >
> 
> [Brett]
> > Template as per PEP 8.
> 
> Does anyone else want to chime in (I'm not the one who needs to be
> convinced)?

Who is?

In general, classes imported from modules are Capitalized (CamelCase,
really).  Only builtins aren't.  (Counter-examples in the standard
library are mostly historic relics.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)


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