On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:22:16 +1000, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> > It might be better to use newstyle classes if you can. Also, the >> > convention is to use CamelCase for classes names (unless you have >> > a strong reason to do otherwise). > >Note that this style is more correctly called TitleCase, since the
Or StudlyCaps :) >first letter of *every* word is capitalised, like in a headline (or >title). "camel case" is different -- see below. > >> ohh - interesting. Thanks for the camelCase tip - dont have a good >> reason to do otherwise, just bad habits. > >The style called camelCase (all words run together, capitalise first >letter of every word except the first) is prevalent in Java, where it >denotes the name of an *instance*, in contrast to a *class* which is >named with TitleCase. > >The camelCase style is less popular in the Python world, where (as per >PEP 8) instances are named with all lower case, either joinedwords or >separate_by_underscores. Not that this prevents all projects, even some large ones, from going with a more camelCased convention. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
