Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.mixmin.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.015 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:method': 0.09; 'bieber': 0.16; 'declaimed': 0.16; 'email addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'email name:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:addr:ix.netcom.com': 0.16; 'from:addr:wlfraed': 0.16; 'from:name:dennis lee bieber': 0.16; 'gmt,': 0.16; 'naming': 0.16; 'rag': 0.16; 'received:wlfraed': 0.16; 'subject:break': 0.16; 'url:netcom': 0.16; 'url:wlfraed': 0.16; 'wulfraed': 0.16; "they've": 0.18; 'result.': 0.21; 'url:home': 0.21; 'expect': 0.25; '"the': 0.26; 'says': 0.27; 'onto': 0.29; 'topic': 0.30; 'time;': 0.30; 'subject:?': 0.31; 'actually': 0.31; 'test': 0.34; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.34; 'lee': 0.34; 'rule': 0.34; 'steven': 0.34; 'done': 0.34; 'driven': 0.34; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.35; 'subject:How': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.37; 'charset:us-ascii': 0.37; 'either': 0.37; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.40; 'car': 0.67; 'subject:name': 0.67; 'air': 0.70; 'as:': 0.70; 'dennis': 0.73; 'subject:one': 0.77; 'air,': 0.84; 'drops': 0.84; 'oil,': 0.84; 'wiped': 0.84; 'subject:long': 0.93; 'oil': 0.96 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Dennis Lee Bieber Subject: Re: How to break long method name into more than one line? Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:24:41 -0400 Organization: > Bestiaria Support Staff < References: <4f5d4390$0$29891$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-99-61-251-4.dsl.klmzmi.sbcglobal.net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 X-No-Archive: YES X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1331569488 news.xs4all.nl 6918 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:54717 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:21540 off topic observation... On 12 Mar 2012 00:30:08 GMT, Steven D'Aprano declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > I expect that naming rule was invented by either people who have heard of > test driven development, but never actually done it, or by people so > anally-retentive that if they make seven short car trips over an hour, > they check the tyre pressure, oil and water seven times because "the > manual says to check before *every* trip". > By which time they find they have to add air, oil, and water as: the pressure gauge usage lets out some air each time; they've wiped a few drops of oil onto a rag each time; and the radiator was still hot&pressurized such that they got an "overfull" result. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/