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Re: Grammar question: Englisn and Python: qualified names

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  Re: Grammar question: Englisn and Python: qualified names Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-04-14 17:13 -0700

#43588 — Re: Grammar question: Englisn and Python: qualified names

On 04/14/2013 02:50 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> Quirky question time!
>
> When you read out a qualified name, eg collections.OrderedDict, do you
> read the qualifier ("collections dot ordered dict"), or do you elide
> it ("ordered dict")? I ask because it makes a difference to talking
> about just one of them:
>
> ... or possibly a collections.OrderedDict...
> ... or possibly an collections.OrderedDict...
>
> Written, the latter looks completely wrong; but if the name is read in
> its short form, with the "collections" part being implicit, then "an"
> is clearly correct! What do you think, experts and others?

Explicit is better than implicit.  ;)


"collections dot ordereddict"

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