Why True/False is capitalized in Python?
Question:
All members are camel case, right? Why True/False but not true/false, which is more relaxed?
Answers:
From Pep 285:
Should the constants be called ‘True’
and ‘False’ (similar to
None) or ‘true’ and ‘false’ (as in C++, Java and C99)?
=> True and False.
Most reviewers agree that consistency within Python is more
important than consistency with other languages.
This, as Andrew points out, is probably because all (most)? built-in constants are capitalized.
Here’s a possible explaination:
I see that naming conventions are such that classes usually get named
CamelCase. So why are the built-in types named all lowercase (like
list, dict, set, bool, etc.)?
Because most of them originally were
types and factory functions, not
classes – and a naming convention is
not a strong reason to make backwards
incompatible changes. A different
example: the new builtin type set is
based on (altough not exactly equal
to) the Set class from the sets module
All of python’s built-in constants are capitalized or [upper] CamelCase:
In python only the 3 keywords True ,False and None are started with capital letters. I think This is to differentiate these 3 keywords from others. These 3 keywords can be used as literals or values where as other keywords not.
For example
a=True is correct
but
a=for is wrong
All members are camel case, right? Why True/False but not true/false, which is more relaxed?
From Pep 285:
Should the constants be called ‘True’
and ‘False’ (similar to
None) or ‘true’ and ‘false’ (as in C++, Java and C99)?=> True and False.
Most reviewers agree that consistency within Python is more
important than consistency with other languages.
This, as Andrew points out, is probably because all (most)? built-in constants are capitalized.
Here’s a possible explaination:
I see that naming conventions are such that classes usually get named
CamelCase. So why are the built-in types named all lowercase (like
list, dict, set, bool, etc.)?Because most of them originally were
types and factory functions, not
classes – and a naming convention is
not a strong reason to make backwards
incompatible changes. A different
example: the new builtin typesetis
based on (altough not exactly equal
to) the Set class from the sets module
All of python’s built-in constants are capitalized or [upper] CamelCase:
In python only the 3 keywords True ,False and None are started with capital letters. I think This is to differentiate these 3 keywords from others. These 3 keywords can be used as literals or values where as other keywords not.
For example
a=True is correct
but
a=for is wrong