For the future, at least I happen to be teaching essential std lib modules this week, i had a headache with how naming goes on (i was looking at how a beginner would learn). Poor me, what could be an intuitive learning journey has some clogs down the road. Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, 14:57 Steven D'Aprano, <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 02:06:08PM +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
It's about ambiguity. Maybe loads is short for load string which in english is also a verb.
True. It took me a long time to stop getting confused between pickle.load and .loads until I stopped reading it as "loads" and started reading it as "load-s(tring)".
I agree with you that this is a sub-optimal naming convention, and we would have been better if a different choice was made at the beginning. But unfortunately it is a widely used naming convention:
* pickle * marshall * json * yaml (I think) * and probably more
and not just in Python. But I agree with the others that the pain and disruption from changing it is greater than the benefit. We all just have to memorise that "loads" means "load-string" and not the present tense of load.
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