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[Alan Gauld]

On 25/05/2021 00:41, Jon Ribbens via Python-list wrote:

> What would you call the argument to a function that
> returns, say, an upper-cased version of its input?

Probably 'candidate' or 'original' or 'initial' or
somesuch.  Or even just 's'. Single character names
are OK when there is no significant meaning to convey!

But never a type name since the type could change or
be extended (like bytes or even a user defined string
subclass.)

The exception being where it's a teaching exercise
where the type is important, but even there I'd precede
it with an article: aString, the_string or similar.

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