On 5/19/20 4:02 AM, Barry Scott wrote: > >> On 18 May 2020, at 22:07, Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote: >> >> camelCase -> noCamelCase >> snake_case -> no_snake_case >> >> One of those is easier to "grep" for than the other. > I guess you mean that a case-sensitive grep can tell > camelCase from noCamelCase. > > In all cases you need to use a \b to mark the boundary of the word. > Otherwise the RE will match more than you expect, assuming a > large set of identifiers. > > grep '\bsnake_case\b *.py > > Barry > I think the issue is that you can easy search for all 'snake_case' and get them, but you have more difficulty searching for all 'camelCase', needing to go case insensitive, but if leading case matters (like there is a type CamelCase that you don't want) you get unwanted hits.
-- Richard Damon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
