Peter Hansen wrote: > Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: >> $ pwd >> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages >> $ grep -re klass . | wc -l >> 274 >> $ grep -re class_ . | wc -l >> 897 > > How many of those "class_" instances are really just substrings of > "__class__" and "class_name" and such? On my machine, I see a handful > in the standard library, and _none_ in site-packages (which has only > 1709 .py files, mind you). > >> For me that's enough. "class_" is used at least three times more than >> "klass". Besides, as Scott pointed out, "class_" is prefered by the >> guidelines too. > > Actually what he posted explicitly states that "cls" is preferred. > Following that it says that one should considering appending _ if the > name conflicts with a keyword (and one can assume it means "for all > keywords other than class").
No, I think what it means is this: "Use cls as the name of the first argument in a classmethod. For anything else (i.e. name that are not the first argument in a classmethod) append an _, if it clashes with a Python keyword.". So class_ is perfectly OK, if the Python argument maps to the HTML attribute name. Bye, Walter Dörwald -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
