Okay,
I hear you saying 'not another naming conventions thread'. I've read
through Google and the 'naming conventions' threads were rather
*spelling conventions* threads.
I'm not interested in camelCase versus camel_case or anything
mentioned in 'PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code'. What I'm looking
for is hints or ideas how to name your variables and especially how to
name functions, methods and classes.
I know this depends on what the function is doing. If I know what it
is doing I should be able to give them a desciptive name. But actually
I'm often not able. Especially when the task is quite similar to
another function or Class.
Recently I wrote this code and noticed that I was completely lost in
giving these objects names to describe and distinguish them:
for validanswer in validanswers:
if myAnswers.myanswer in myAnswers.validAnswers[validanswer]:
MyOptions['style'] = validanswer
The 'tips' I got through some postings or articles on the net are: if
a function simply tests something and returns a boolean call it
def is_<whatever_you_are_testing_for>():
pass
like 'is_even'.
Makes sense. The other thing I captured was to use something like
def get_values():
... Makes sense, too, but aren't all functions getting something?
So if someone had a similar dilemma to mine and could tell me how he
dealt with that, I'd be grateful...
Thorsten
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