Naming Conventions

PEP8

PEP8 is the “Style Guide for Python Code”. Reading this is good. So check the document:

But applying PEP8 is even better. To simplify the use of PEP8 many tools have been created. So use one.

pycodestyle is a tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.

A simple summary of PEP8:

Type	Public	Internal
Packages	lower_with_under
Modules	lower_with_under	_lower_with_under
Classes	CapWords	_CapWords
Exceptions	CapWords
Functions	lower_with_under()	_lower_with_under()
Global/Class Constants	CAPS_WITH_UNDER	_CAPS_WITH_UNDER
Global/Class Variables	lower_with_under	_lower_with_under
Instance Variables	lower_with_under	_lower_with_under (protected)
Method Names	lower_with_under()	_lower_with_under() (protected)
Function/Method Parameters	lower_with_under
Local Variables	lower_with_under