Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Aug 10 17:01:17 CEST 2004

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> Well, it's already there, but types.GeneratorType.__name__ is
> 'generator'... it could be changed to 'GeneratorType', I guess.

No, no, no!  The "new" convention for built-in type names is all
lowercase.  CamelCaseType is old and only used in the context of
types.py.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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