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Re:What are some good and bad names you've encountered in Py... by jjgreen on Monday May 22, 2023 @06:06AM (#36029379)
Ones that used to annoy me were in the standard library, in particular the unitest module with camel-case functions (assertEqual and so on), I've seen this justified by it being old and predating the snake-case conventions, but surely assert_equal could have lived alongside the older names. Moot now that I've switched to pytest of course ...
Re:What are some good and bad names you've encountered in Py... by rekahrv on Monday May 22, 2023 @06:54AM (#36029780)
Yeah, anything that contradict s PEP-8 conventions looks unnatural in Python. :-)