naming convention for scalars, lists, dictionaries ...

beliavsky_at_aol.com
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: 28 Feb 2005 09:51:55 -0800

Since Python does not have declarations, I wonder if people think it is
good to name function arguments according to the type of data structure
expected, with names like "xlist" or "xdict".

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