[Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile? (original) (raw)

Gustavo Carneiro gjcarneiro at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 12:14:29 CET 2007

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).

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