Re: Name od builtin functions: is there a rule ??

Eric Daniel (daniel@turtle.tamu.edu)
23 Apr 1995 23:10:35 GMT

> I just finished reading the python docs. It seems to be a very nice
> language, but what bothers me is that I'm unable to find any rule or
> convention for the naming of the builtin fucntions. Is there a reason,
> or have functions been added one after an other without care of having
> a consistent naming convention? Even though it does not change the

I'm no authority in this domain, but by seeing some of the source files, I
would say that yes, the modules have been written by different people.

Besides, I never saw any proposal for a naming convention in Python.

But I don't think that the functions in the modules have been added
separately. I might be wrong, but I believe that within a module, the names
follow more or less the same rule.

-- Eric Daniel
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