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Elegant Python function to convert CamelCase to snake_case?

September 27, 2022 by Tarik

Camel case to snake case import re name=”CamelCaseName” name = re.sub(r'(?<!^)(?=[A-Z])’, ‘_’, name).lower() print(name) # camel_case_name If you do this many times and the above is slow, compile the regex beforehand: pattern = re.compile(r'(?<!^)(?=[A-Z])’) name = pattern.sub(‘_’, name).lower() To handle more advanced cases specially (this is not reversible anymore): def camel_to_snake(name): name = re.sub(‘(.)([A-Z][a-z]+)’, r’\1_\2′, … Read more

Acronyms in CamelCase [closed]

September 26, 2022 by Tarik

There are legitimate criticisms of the Microsoft advice from the accepted answer. Inconsistent treatment of acronyms/initialisms depending on number of characters: playerID vs playerId vs playerIdentifier. The question of whether two-letter acronyms should still be capitalized if they appear at the start of the identifier: USTaxes vs usTaxes Difficulty in distinguishing multiple acronyms: i.e. USID … Read more

JSON Naming Convention (snake_case, camelCase or PascalCase) [closed]

September 13, 2022 by Tarik

In this document Google JSON Style Guide (recommendations for building JSON APIs at Google), It recommends that: Property names must be camelCased, ASCII strings. The first character must be a letter, an underscore (_), or a dollar sign ($). Example: { “thisPropertyIsAnIdentifier”: “identifier value” } My team consistently follows this convention when building REST APIs. … Read more