On Feb 5, 4:53 pm, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: > 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
Okay, I guess it should be a function called abbe() instead of a method called AbbeGet(). That should solve the problem of trying to remember whether I called it GetAbbe or AbbeGet. Thanks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
