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Nathan McElwain
4,575 PointsWhy not camelCase?
It was my understanding that it was a stylistic choice, and not so much a PEP8 no-no.
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Sue Dough
35,800 PointsFunction names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability in python.

Kenneth Love
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou can, of course, use whatever naming convention you want. PEP 008 just suggests using snake_case for variable names because it makes them very visually distinct from the CamelCased class names.

Robert Skoubo
6,854 PointsI agree, because it does make it easier to read the code.

Robert Skoubo
6,854 PointsCamelCase is the naming convention that can be used for variable as well as file names. CamelCase can be used instead of the underscore naming convention. An example of camelCase would be MyFakeFile and underscore would be my_fake_file.
Robert Skoubo
6,854 PointsRobert Skoubo
6,854 Pointsghost code - You are absolutely right!