Having ended up almost solely with Python at the end of a journey of many languages I have learnt and used; style has been something important to me.
Python has pep8 which states somethings definitively such as:-
* Use 4 spaces per indentation level" (I was actually using 2 until now!)
* Limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters.
* Separate top-level function and class definitions with two blank lines.
* Method definitions inside a class are separated by a single blank line.
...so things like naming styles are purely at the discretion of the user. Fair enough but i like to be consistent where I can with these things, and coming from a Java background I pretty much stick with a style I picked up from there. Here's some explaination. Things always seemed very well defined in the land of Sun!
http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/html/CodeConventions.doc8.html#367
http://geosoft.no/development/javastyle.html
...and so
* a class is ClassName()
* method names are lookBehindYou()
* class attributes are as above
this one from the geosoft link above I like also
* "Abbreviations and acronyms should not be uppercase when used as name.
exportHtmlSource(); // NOT: exportHTMLSource();
openDvdPlayer(); // NOT: openDVDPlayer();"
I've not mentioned doc strings here, the use of pep8 tool, pylint or pyflakes or even given an example class, well I guess that's the beauty of blogging!
This is worth knowing though http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Python_Style_Guide oooh and removing trailing whitespace in vim... thats :%s/\s\+$//
