John J. Lee wrote: > Paul McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058750.html >> >> At first, Guido seemed ambivalent, and commented on the >> contentiousness of the issue, but it seems that the "non-English >> speakers can more easily find word breaks marked with underscores" >> justification tipped the scale in favor of >> lower_case_with_underscores. > [...] > > That rationale seems undermined by the frequent use of runtogether > names in the standard library. These can be confusing even to native > speakers. And every time you come up with a new name, or try to > remember an old one, you have to decide or remember whether it's > likethis or like_this. > > Even as a native English speaker, some of these are tricky -- > e.g. urllib has a private class named "addinfourl". "What's this > 'fourl' we're adding in?" > > (In fact, the method adds attributes named "info" and "url". Even > though I've read that name hundreds of times, my brain always insists > on reading it "add in fourl".) > > This is the worst of both worlds: inconsistent and hard to understand.
Sounds like a good candidate for a rename in Python 3000. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
