On 6/30/2018 7:27 AM, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > normally, naming methods in python is given by > > method_name > > but i see some cases where this is not followed in the std lib > > ex : dict.fromkeys > > should it not have been > > from_keys? No. _ is an option, not a requirement and usually not used for short names. -- Terry Jan Reedy