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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 14:45:14 -0600
Subject: Re: Style question -- plural of class name?
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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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