Thanks Hugo,

Do methods like __add__, __del__, count as built-in types? I'm aware of the
rule you explained and use it and that's why when  I saw:

class indexer():
     def ___getitem__(self, index):
         return index ** 2

I thought I was missing some special style, or rule. The class above is take
from Learning Python, and there are several other examples too.

Thanks,

T
Hugo Arts wrote:
>  On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM, C.T. Matsumoto <tmatsumoto@[...].net> wrote:
>    
> > yes,
> >
> > class Foo: # the book says this is a class header
> >   pass
> >
> > As for my question it looks like the convention is if a class only has
> > operator overloading then the class receives a lowercase class name.
> > If the class has a mix, operator overloading and a normal method then
> > the class name gets starts with a capital.
> >
> > It's just a detail, but I wanted to know.
> >
> >     
> 
>  class names should always be capitalized, no matter what kind of
>  methods they have.
>  The exceptions to this are the built-in types (int, str, list, dict,
>  etc.). But if you're writing a class yourself,
>  capitalize it.
> 
>  quoting PEP 8:
> 
>        Almost without exception, class names use the CapWords convention.
>        Classes for internal use have a leading underscore in addition.
> 
>  if you want to know something, anything at all about style
>  conventions, read PEP 8. It's the definitive python styleguide.
> 
>  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> 
>  Hugo
> 
>    

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