[Python-3000] renaming suggestion

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Aug 2 02:31:40 CEST 2007


Fred Drake wrote:
> Would you consider weakkeydict and weakvaluedict better than  
> WeakKeyDict and WeakValueDict?

I like WeakKeyDict and WeakValDict because the existing names
seem excessively long-winded, given that 'dict' or 'Dict' is
a well-established abbreviation.

But I actually think that at least some of the weakref stuff
should be builtin, seeing as support for it is wired directly
into the core implementation. In that case, all-lowercase
names would be more appropriate.

--
Greg


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