On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:26:38 -0800, Chris Rebert 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.
But sometimes you still need methods or functions of the form verb_noun. For instance, if getting or setting the voltage is an expensive operation, you don't want to fool the user into thinking it is a cheap attribute access. Or get_voltage might be a stand-alone function rather than a method. Or the getter might allow additional arguments. The admonition to avoid getters and setters isn't meant to prohibit *any* method which has a get/set in the name (whether implicit or explicit). It's meant as an antidote to the Java idiom of making *every* attribute private and accessing them via getters/setters, even when all they do is merely get/set the contents of the attribute. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
