Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens wrote: > Paul McGuire schrieb: >> I'm starting a new thread for this topic, so as not to hijack the one >> started by Steve Howell's excellent post titled "ten small Python >> programs". >> >> In that thread, there was a suggestion that these examples should >> conform to PEP-8's style recommendations, including use of >> lower_case_with_underscores style for function names. I raised some >> questions about this suggestion, since I liked the names the way they >> were, but as a result, part of the discussion has drifted into a >> separate track about PEP-8, and naming styles. > > I prefer mixedCaseStyle, and I think that should be "standard", as this > style is commonly > used in all "major" languages , for example Java,C++,C#. > It shortens the identifiers but leaves the meaning intact.
The argument for under_score_names is usually that non-native speakers can more easily find the word boundaries. Not being a non-native speaker ;-) I can't verify that one, but it's pretty plausible given the current amount of money spent on research on automatic word-segmentation for languages like Chinese. =) STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
