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Hi, all.. just found the community and thought i'd drop in. I'm a developer who uses python almost exclusively these days at work.. Here's something i was pondering earlier: python's naming scheme for built-in functions. It seems to be "all lowercase and no underscores, with abbreviations." So there's: hasattr, setattr, getattr, etc. in __builtins__, and strings have endswith, expandtabs, isupper... Why, then, would dictionary objects have a method called "has_key"? I always took it for granted, but.. seems kinda out of place, doesn't it? Is "haskey" the name of someone Guido doesn't like? A swear in some language? Hmm. |
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thoughtful.