[Python-Dev] PEP 318: Let's propose some useful built-in decorators (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Fri Apr 2 15:40:42 EST 2004

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:32, Guido van Rossum wrote:

We had a discussion about naming conventions recently, and I believe the outcome was that most folks like underscores in their names. OTOH if I was writing this just for me, I would indeed make them underscoreless.

Actually, for multi-word method and function names, we preferred underscores to camelCasing. But I still wish has_key() were haskey() and since neither "func" nor "attr" are actual words, funcattrs() is just fine. :)

I'm torn on whether new decorators should go in as built-ins or not. It's darn convenient to stick them there, but I worry that the documentation for the builtin module is getting pretty hefty now (and no, I really don't want to do something like an os module split -- man, I hate those pages ;).

-Barry

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