[Baypiggies] History of python naming

[Paul McNett]

Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:

> On Feb 4, 2008 3:54 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 2008 3:46 PM, Jeff Younker <jeff at drinktomi.com> wrote:
>> > Does anyone have pointers to the history of python naming
>> > conventions?   I'm curious how the std library ended up with
>> > outliers like StringIO.StringIO.
>>
>> It was simply me experimenting with different ways of doing things,
>> way, way long ago. And perhaps not pushing back enough on alternative
>> naming conventions used by early contributors. PEP 8 came much, much
>> later.
> 
> The killer for me was camelCaseMethod names.  I seem to remember them
> being allowed by the style guide seven years ago, and I have a bunch
> of legacy code using them.  I remember when I first read the style
> guide again and noticed that they were not allowed.  I was like,
> "Crap!  How am I supposed to change the public API of open source
> code?!?" *sigh*

I had the same experience. I actually still use camelMethods and 
TitleCase properties. Then again, I also indent with tabs.

PEP's are great, for Python and the standard library. But I'm glad I 
don't have to conform to PEP 8 to the letter of the law in my own code.

Paul

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