Re: OT: ALGOL 60 at 60

2020-05-31 Thread Dennis Carachiola
Ah, but I have used it. Admittedly it was during a programming languages survey course at RPI in 1971-3. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: why no camelCase in PEP 8?

2020-05-31 Thread Dennis Carachiola
>From PEP8-- "The guidelines provided here are intended to improve the readability of code and make it consistent across the wide spectrum of Python code. As PEP 20 says, "Readability counts". A style guide is about consistency. Consistency with this style guide is important. Consistency within

Where to set default data - where received, or where used

2012-06-11 Thread Dennis Carachiola
I'm programming a project which will use a file to save parameters needed by the program. There are already two previous file formats, each of which can only be run by the version of the program which created them. I'm trying to avoid that problem in the future. To do that, I intend to use a dic