On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" wrote:
>There's the possibility that the most important words should go first in >this case: > >result_flag__t > >But, I'll admit that other people could have learned different orders of >scanning words than I, especially depending on their spoken language >backgrounds. A poll of the newsgroup isn't exactly academically >impartial sampling, but there aren't any better ways to make decisions, >are there? (I think it would be easy to make either one a habit.) > >Here's the other option in the same context: > >def function(vocab_list, result_flag__t, max_value): > result, flag = result_flag__t > pass > >To be thorough, there's also a trailing double underscore option. > >def function(vocab_list, result_flag__, max_value): > result, flag = result_flag__ > pass > >Which I don't recognize from any other usages, but I defer. If there >aren't any, conditionally, I think this is my favorite. t__result_flag and result_flag__t have the advantage that you can search for t__ or __t as start or end of a name if you want to find and change all these places in the source. You can compare it with the decision to use reinterpret_cast<long>(...) as a cast operator in C++. It is ugly but much easier to find than (long)... A search for __ alone would have too many hits in Python. Harald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
