Newbie question on Classes

Nanjundi nanjundi at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 14:02:43 EST 2008


On Jan 10, 5:32 pm, "Steven Clark" <steven.p.cl... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > l = []
> > l.append(man)
> > l.append(woman)
>
> > # Print the state.
> > for item in l:
> >   print item.state()
>
>  Small, off-topic nitpick:
> please don't use "l" (lower-case el) as a variable name.
>
> >Fromhttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/:
>
> "Naming Conventions
>
>  Names to Avoid
>
>  Never use the characters `l' (lowercase letter el), `O' (uppercase
>  letter oh), or `I' (uppercase letter eye) as single character variable
>  names.
>
>  In some fonts, these characters are indistinguishable from the numerals
>  one and zero. When tempted to use `l', use `L' instead."

Thanks for the PEP, Steven.
-N



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