On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 15:27:35 +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > normally, naming methods in python is given by > > method_name > > but i see some cases where this is not followed in the std lib > > ex : dict.fromkeys > > should it not have been > > from_keys?
Python is about 25 years old (1993 I think it was first released) and not all the names follow the same convention. Sometimes that's because the names pre-date the convention. Sometimes its because the name follows some other convention, e.g. most of the "is" names look like isinstance, issubclass, string.islower etc rather than is_instance, is_subclass, is_lower. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
