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Naming Conventions

Naming conventions

Naming conventions:
o Naming Conventions is a rule to follow as you decide what to name
your identifiers such as class, package, variable, constant, function etc.

o But it is not forced to follow.


Naming Conventions

General rules for python naming conventions:


Rule1: Always give a meaning full name for any of the python objects.
Don’t give names like x, y, or z etc.

Rule2: Don’t give space in between object name instead of using


underscore(_) when there are more than one-word presents.

Rule3: Better to use camelCase only when it makes sense or else try
avoiding more use of camelCase.
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Function:
o We should write the python function name with all lower case characters.
o Do not use uppercase character while naming a function in python.
o Use underscore(_)in between the words instead of space while naming a
function.
Example:
def example_function():
print(“This is the way a function must be used”)
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Variable:
o You must start variable name with an alphabet or underscore(_) character.
o A variable name can only contain Alphanumeric (A-Z, 0-9) and underscore(_).
o You cannot start the variable name with a number.
o You cannot use special characters with the variable name such as $, %, @, #,
&, ^ etc.
o Variable names are case sensitive. For example age and Age are two different
variables.
o Do not use reserve keywords as a variable name for example class, for, def
etc.
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Variable:
Example:
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Class:
o We need to follow the camelCase convention.
o When you are writing any classes for an exception then that name should
end with “Error”.
o If you are calling the class from somewhere or callable then, you can give
a class name like a function.
o The built-in classes in python are with lowercase.
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Class:
Example:
class MyClass
class Hello
class InputError
class ProperClassNamingConvention
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Package:
o You should use all lowercase while deciding a name for a package.
o If there are multiple words in your package name then they should be be
separated by an underscore(_).
o It is always better to use a single word for a package name.
Example:
from mypkg import mod1
from example_package import cars
Naming conventions

Naming convention for identifiers:


Global variable:
o You should use all lowercase while deciding a name for a object.
o If there multiple words in your global variable name then they should be
separated by an underscore(_).
Example:
global my_variable
global user_name
global AGE
Thank You

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