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From: John Downs <john.a.downs@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 16:37:05 -0400
Subject: Re: Style question -- plural of class name?
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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:

> FooEntry is a class.  How would you describe a list of these in a
> docstring?
>
> "A list of FooEntries"
>
> "A list of FooEntrys"
>
> "A list of FooEntry's"
>
> "A list of FooEntry instances"
>
> The first one certainly sounds the best, but it seems wierd to change
> the spelling of the class name to make it plural.
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How about: "A list with elements of type FooEntry"?  I also like the last
one: "A list of FooEntry instances".

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<div dir=3D"ltr">On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Roy Smith <span dir=3D"ltr=
">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:roy@panix.com" target=3D"_blank">roy@panix.com</a>&=
gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">=
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

FooEntry is a class. =C2=A0How would you describe a list of these in a<br>
docstring?<br>
<br>
&quot;A list of FooEntries&quot;<br>
<br>
&quot;A list of FooEntrys&quot;<br>
<br>
&quot;A list of FooEntry&#39;s&quot;<br>
<br>
&quot;A list of FooEntry instances&quot;<br>
<br>
The first one certainly sounds the best, but it seems wierd to change<br>
the spelling of the class name to make it plural.<br>
<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#888888">--<br>
<a href=3D"http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list" target=3D"_=
blank">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list</a><br>
</font></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra" style=
>How about: &quot;A list with elements of type FooEntry&quot;? =C2=A0I also=
 like the last one: &quot;A list of FooEntry instances&quot;.</div></div>

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