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Right. And a lot have come from other languages like R where that’s more common.

If I were building a library for something like that, I’d build the core idiomatically, then expose an idiomatic API with aliases for brevity. I’d make sure the alias is documented in the docstring, and types refer to the idiomatic names. I know TIMTOWTDI isn’t entirely “pythonic”, but it’s a small compromise for probably a good maintainability boost.




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