What are the naming convention for private member variable, andprivate and public member function?

[Peng Yu]

Hi,

It says in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

" Method Names and Instance Variables

Use the function naming rules: lowercase with words separated by
underscores as necessary to improve readability.

Use one leading underscore only for non-public methods and
instance
variables."

I am wondering what is the different between member function and
member variable in term of naming convention.

Regards,
Peng

 

[Daniel Fetchinson]

It says in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

" Method Names and Instance Variables

Use the function naming rules: lowercase with words separated by
underscores as necessary to improve readability.

Use one leading underscore only for non-public methods and
instance
variables."

I am wondering what is the different between member function and
member variable in term of naming convention.

Nothing that I know of. If they are "private" they should both start
with an underscore, if they are "public" they should not.

HTH,
Daniel

 

[Dave Angel]

Hi,

It says in http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

" Method Names and Instance Variables

Use the function naming rules: lowercase with words separated by
underscores as necessary to improve readability.

Use one leading underscore only for non-public methods and
instance
variables."

I am wondering what is the different between member function and
member variable in term of naming convention.

Regards,
Peng

Member functions are verbs or sometimes adjectives, while member
variables are nouns.

DaveA

 

[Simon Forman]

Hi,

It says inhttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

"    Method Names and Instance Variables

      Use the function naming rules: lowercase with words separated by
      underscores as necessary to improve readability.

      Use one leading underscore only for non-public methods and
instance
      variables."

I am wondering what is the different between member function and
member variable in term of naming convention.

Regards,
Peng

The naming convention for both to indicate that attributes of a class
should be considered internal is a leading underscore.