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From: "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Style question -- plural of class name?
Date: Wed, 08 May 2013 20:38:36 -0400
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On 08/05/2013 4:20 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> FooEntry is a class.  How would you describe a list of these in a
> docstring?
>
> "A list of FooEntries"  0
>
> "A list of FooEntrys"   -1
>
> "A list of FooEntry's"  +1
>
> "A list of FooEntry instances"  No FooEntry is specified as a class.
>
> The first one certainly sounds the best, but it seems wierd to change
> the spelling of the class name to make it plural.
>

Colin W.