On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Wanderer <wande...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > On Feb 5, 3:26 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Wanderer <wande...@dialup4less.com> wrote: >> > Which is the more accepted way to compose method names nounVerb or >> > verbNoun? >> >> > For example voltageGet or getVoltage? getVoltage sounds more normal, >> > but voltageGet is more like voltage.Get. I seem to mix them and I >> > should probably pick one way and stick with it. >> >> Use properties[1] and just call it `voltage`. Python is not Java [2]; >> explicit getters/setters are unpythonic. >> >> [1]http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property > > Maybe I'm not using Get right either. I'm wrapping functions. > > def AbbeGet(self, Lens): > """ > Get the Abbe Number V for the material > where > V = (Nd - 1)/(Nf - Nc) > where the Index of Refractions are > Nd at the Fraunhofer D line 0.5892um > Nf at the Fraunhofer F line 0.4861um > Nc at the Fraunhofer C line 0.6563um > """ > > Nd = Lens.Mat.NtGet(0.5892) > Nf = Lens.Mat.NtGet(0.4861) > Nc = Lens.Mat.NtGet(0.6563) > > if (Nf - Nc) != 0: > V = (Nd - 1)/(Nf - Nc) > else: > V = 1e6 > > return V
This isn't even really a method; you don't refer to "self" in the body at all. Why isn't it just a function? Cheers, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
