On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 01:30:36 -0700, rantingrick wrote: > On Jul 11, 3:03 am, "Günther Dietrich" <gd.use...@spamfence.net> wrote: > >> So, it is not a disadvantage that the functions you listed above are >> named in this way. In the contrary, it is an advantage, as it keeps >> newcomers from using stupid variable names. > > "int" for an Integer is stupid? > "list" for a List is stupid? > "str" for a String is stupid? > > What am i missing?
If you're going to use generic names, why type three or four letters when one will do? i, j, k, m, n, p, q for ints. L, a, b, x for lists s, t, a, b for strings. If you don't want to use generic names, then int, list, str are useless because they don't mean anything. You need something like: count_of_widgets list_of_widgets description -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
