[Python-Dev] Naming conventions in Py3K (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Dec 30 11:40:50 CET 2005

Brett Cannon wrote:

I am fine with changing the built-in types, but changing the built-in singletons just looks really odd to me. So odd that I just don't want to see them changed. I mean when I think of constants, I think of a variable that references an object and that reference never changes. The built-ins you are referencing, though, are singletons: named objects that are not variables. So keeping their naming scheme as-is does not feel like a breaking of the rules to me since they are not treated the same (especially at the C level).

Actually, I thought some of them would become reserved words in P3k, anyway.

Regards, Martin

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