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.
To some degree, that's an inevitable part of the learning process. The most we can realistically do is try to be aware of it during design, but I suspect there's always going to be some "more intuitive" way we could have done it when looking back with hindsight. On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 6:04 AM Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer < arj.python@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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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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