On Nov 18, 2:22 pm, Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:49 -0800, Steve Howell wrote: > > P.S. The underscores before the method names might look a little funny > > for inner methods, but it's the nature of the code..._dict and _list > > would lead to confusion with builtins, if not actual conflict. > > Then name them something sensible that tells what they do! > > The convention (which you break at your peril) is that functions are > verbs, and classes are nouns. Even "handle_dict" is better than _dict -- > the latter looks like you're calling a private mapping type. >
Do you verbify functions with no side effects? Do you prefer calculate_cosine(angle) to cosine(angle)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
