Underscore/Camelcase insensitivity
Martijn Faassen
m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Sat Feb 22 04:48:52 EST 2003
Hi there,
I present to you all PEP 3008: Underscore/Camelcase insensitivity. Guido
is entirely tired of this debate and asked me to make a posting about it
here so that comp.lang.python can decide.
Many people use camelCase for method names, others use under_scores. Some
people like myself find ourselves switching between the two, not
knowing which to prefer. Plus, beginners can forget to spell it under_score
and accidentally use camelCase and vice versa, which is not a good thing.
Guido is asking you all to discuss this proposal, come up with other
proposals and a voting procedure, and then the voting result.
The following proposal is made:
def foo_bar_baz():
pass
can be called like this:
foo_bar_baz()
but under the new PEP 3008 rules, also like this:
fooBarBaz()
And likewise, the following definition:
def fooBarBaz():
pass
can be called also using its underscore equivalent:
foo_bar_baz()
Of course this also works for attributes:
getattr(foo, 'foo_bar_baz')
getattr(foo, 'fooBarBaz')
will do exactly the same thing.
Functions and methods which would have the same name under the new rule
simply have the last definition win; it is not expected there are many
instances of this case but Python will issue a CamelUnderscoreWarning if
they are encountered.
Regards,
Martijn
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