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    <p>Depending on your interpretation this may or may not be a rhetorical question, but it really baffles me. What sense does this convention make? I understand naming conventions don't necessarily have to have a rhyme or reason behind them, but why deviate from the already popular camelCase? <em>Is there</em> a rhyme and reason behind <code>lower_case_with_underscores</code> that I'm somehow missing? (and yes, I have read PEP 8 in its entirety, and yes, I do understand that it's merely a proposal, a guide, etc.)</p> <p>I suppose my real question would be this: I'm writing a Python library. In fact, with any luck, it may be a rather large library, relative to my other projects. I already try to adhere to PEP 8 as much as possible, and so far I've even maintained <code>lower_case_with_underscores</code> as PEP 8 instructs for function and method names. But it bugs me that I have to remember to use camelCase for Twisted, camelCase for <code>logging</code>, and just about everything else. <strong>What naming convention should I use, and why?</strong> </p> <p>It would probably amaze people that I care this much about naming, enough to write a lengthy question about it, and it amazes me, too. Perhaps I have a little OCD when it comes to these things. I don't have much of a "personal opinion" about it as much as I have a tendency to just go for whatever is used the most, which in this case, would be camelCase - but it annoys me even further to find out that I'm probably breaking some eternal laws about explicit vs implicit and the zen of python written in stone or something. </p>
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    1. CO"but why deviate from the already popular camelCase?" I believe lower_case_with_underscores is much older than camelCase. Also, I personally loathe camelCase of any kind of MixedCase with a burning passion. Use whichever convention you prefer.
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    2. COUse Systems Hungarian. :P But seriously, it wouldn't amaze people at all - coding style conventions are as much a religious war as any other aspect of programming. You'll find plenty of questions on SO devoted to where to put curly braces, or the zen of whitespace.
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    3. COHow is hungarian supposed to work with ducktyping? :p
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