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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 19:31:26 +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. Exa=
mple: 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