Re: Capitalization for variable that holds a class

From	Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject	Re: Capitalization for variable that holds a class
Date	2012-09-23 12:53 -0400
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:48:38 +0100, Joshua Landau
<joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Simple question:
> 
> [myClass() for myClass in myClasses]
> vs
> [MyClass() for MyClass in myClasses]
>

	The recommended naming scheme for Python is that class DEFINITIONS
begin capitalized. Instances, methods/attributes, functions begin
lowercase.

	I abstain from the argument about camel-case vs _ (Ada "pretty
printers" automatically capitalize at _, so _ is common in Ada)

class MyClass(object):
	def myMethod(self):
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Re: Capitalization for variable that holds a class Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-09-23 12:53 -0400

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