Re: Naming conventions for functions and methods

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Date	2014-07-08 19:31 +0100
Subject	Re: Naming conventions for functions and methods
From	Arnaud Delobelle <arnodel@gmail.com>
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On 8 July 2014 15:59, <python@bdurham.com> wrote:
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> Looking for your opinions on how you name your functions and methods. Example: I have a function that hashes a file. I could name this function hash_file() or file_hash(). The 1st naming convention sounds more natural, the 2nd naming convention allows one to group related functions together by the object being acted on. PEP-8 doesn't appear to offer guidance in this area. Thoughts? Malcolm

If you want to group related functions together, I would suggest
putting them in a module, e.g. 'fileutils'.  I'd still go for hashfile
for the function name though.

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Arnaud

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