[Chicago] ALL CAPS?

[Brantley Harris]

Please note that you should rarely if ever use module level constants.
 They are most often used when interfacing with a C program that has a lot
of enums.  e.g. socket.AF_INET


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Ryan Manly <ryan.manly at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't like it when people use them in bash but here you go...
>
> Constants
> Constants are usually defined on a module level and written in all capital
> letters with underscores separating words. Examples include MAX_OVERFLOW
> and TOTAL.
> sauce: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#naming-conventions
>
> Ryan M. Manly
> Glenbrook High Schools
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Please tell me it ain't so?
>>
>> I mentioned the other night that I did not like some variable names in a
>> template for the Rice course.  What I did not like was the all caps.  In
>> week 5s lecture though he says all caps is a Python convention for
>> constants that will not change in a program.
>>
>> I had my first negative CAPS conversation in about '88 due to needing to
>> learn to send duplex messages from a IIC when the internet was a bunch of
>> hobbiest that had phone lines that could access more than one area code and
>> set their PCs up as servers.
>>
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