Carl Banks wrote: > On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:30:00 -0500, Sergio Correia wrote: >> Hi, I'm kinda new to Python (that means, I'm a total noob here), but >> have one doubt which is more about consistency that anything else. >> >> Why if PEP 8 says that "Almost without exception, class names use the >> CapWords convention", does the most basic class, object, is lowercase? > > It said "almost". :) > Indeed it did, and never forget that most of PEP 8 was derived from an essay by Guido whose original title was "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds" ... > >> I found a thread about this: >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2007-April/437365.html >> where its stated that -object- is actually a type, not a class; but the >> idea still doesn't convince me. > You don't have to be convinced. You just have to do what the PEP says yourself and ignore the people who *haven't* done what it says (particularly if they are core Python developers).
> There's a false dichotomy there: it's not an either-or situation. Almost > everyone would agree that new-style classes, defined by the Python class > statement, are both classes and types. Some might squabble over whether > object is class, but it has nothing to do with why object is spelled in > lower-case. > > The reason why "object" is lower case is because built-in types are > spelled in lower-case. Why are built-in types lower case? Because many > built-in types were originially functions. For example, "int" and "str" > were once functions. When these symbols became the names of their > respective types, they kept the lower-case spelling, and it became > convention for built-in types to be spelled lower-case. > In other words: "Get over it" ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden --------------- Asciimercial ------------------ Get on the web: Blog, lens and tag the Internet Many services currently offer free registration ----------- Thank You for Reading ------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
