text_combined: antoine pitrou slvkzycypitrounet steven daprano pearwoodinfo writes think youre exaggerating tad would confused see titlepattern foocallbacktitlepattern else would titlepattern callable used callable real problem example fact lambda variable name doesnt reflect callable common practice use verbs callables nouns noncallables thus id expect variable called something like make_title_pattern rather titlepattern whats ugly allcaps way antoine _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 100433 0000 pythondev pep 8 discourage named lambdas