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Re: Style question -- plural of class name?

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Date Wed, 8 May 2013 14:45:14 -0600
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On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 2:37 PM, John Downs <john.a.downs@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> --
>> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>
> How about: "A list with elements of type FooEntry"?  I also like the last
> one: "A list of FooEntry instances".

list<FooEntry>

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Style question -- plural of class name? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-05-08 16:20 -0400
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-05-08 15:33 -0500
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-09 00:13 +0000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? John Downs <john.a.downs@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 16:37 -0400
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 14:45 -0600
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-05-08 22:40 +0000
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-09 15:14 +0000
      Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2013-05-09 19:43 +0300
        Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-05-09 17:28 +0000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-08 19:45 -0400
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-09 00:02 +0000
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-05-09 10:42 +1000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 10:12 +1000
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? "Colin J. Williams" <cjw@ncf.ca> - 2013-05-08 20:38 -0400
    Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2013-05-09 12:21 +0200
  Re: Style question -- plural of class name? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-05-09 18:44 +0100

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