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[Greg Ewing]

Richard Prosser wrote:
> For example:
> 
> github_response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/user', auth=('user', 'pass')) 
>  # Derived from http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master.
> 
> The above request returns a |Response| 
> <http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/api/#requests.Response> object 
> and so the variable has 'response' in its name.

Conventions like that can be useful, but only when they clarify
the code, which they don't always do. Sometimes they just make
it needlessly verbose and hard to read. So I would not like to
see any formal use made of such a convention.

-- 
Greg