[Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile?

[Gustavo Carneiro]

On 3/21/07, Scott Dial <scott+python-dev at scottdial.com> wrote:
>
> Greg Ewing wrote:
> > A tangential question -- why are TemporaryFile and
> > NamedTemporaryFile named in TitleCase, when they're
> > functions and not classes?
> >
>
> I wondered the same. At first draft of my email I wrote "class"
> operating under the assumption that only classes got to be camel-cased.
> If I had to guess, the rationale was that they are simply wrappers a
> class. Nevertheless, tempfile dates well back before the PEP 8 style
> guidelines. I think consistency would dictate that a newly added
> function should match the other ones, but I have no strong feelings
> about this.


  I wouldn't bet on that.  The ElementTree XML module was added to Python
2.5 and it does not follow PEP 8 style (method names are not words separated
by underscores).

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
"The universe is always one step beyond logic."
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