noob question

[Chinook]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:06:08 -0400, Matt Hollingsworth wrote
(in article <42BE37C0.3000306 at maudit.net>):

> Hello,
> 
> Very new to python, so a noob question.  When I've written stuff in 
> JavaScript or MEL in the past, I've always adopted the variable naming 
> convention of using a $ as the first character (no, I don't use perl, 
> never have).  Not possible in python.  What are some good options that 
> people commonly use so that they can easily and quickly identify 
> variable with just a glance?  When I was writing stuff in SoftImage 
> XSI/JScript, many of the examples in the SDK used just a leading lower 
> case o, but I'd like somethign that's more visible.  I'm not a super 
> advanced user and am just starting out in python (pretty much just 
> working my way through Learning Python, at around page 160 or so).  
> Seems like an _extremely_ elegent language that is very easy to read, so 
> I suppose it's not really as much of an issue as it is with other 
> languages.  Still, I would like to see what other people do and what are 
> some good ideas for this kind of thing.
> 
> Thank you for any and all ideas.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 

Here is something I copied from somewhere (someone else might know the 
source):

Summary of Naming Conventions

Type								           Convention					                             
Example
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
function				           action_with_underscores		           
find_all
variable		           		noun_with_underscores		             
curr_index
constant		          		NOUN_ALL_CAPS			                    
ALLOWED_RNA_PAIRS
class		               		MixedCaseNoun				                       
RnaSequence
public property  		MixedCaseNoun				                       
IsPaired
private property		_noun_with_leading_underscore   _is_updated
public method	   	mixedCaseExceptFirstWordVerb   stripDegenerate
private method	  	_verb_with_leading_underscore    _check_if_paired
really private 
  data 	                __two_leading_underscores	    
__delegator_object_ref
parameters that 
   match 
   properties       	SameAsProperty				     def __init__(data, 
Alphabet=None)
factory function	 	MixedCase					                              
InverseDict
module	           			lowercase_with_underscores	       unit_test


Hope it does not come out too jumbled,
Lee C