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New to coding, trying to work through conventional arrangements. I've seen various naming styles - long and short words, some use Caps for first letter and others not, most use underscore between variable name_words_like_so.

Any conventions for python variable naming I should be aware of for best practices purposes?

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The PEP 8 Style Guide is a good start. In fact, programs such as pylint can scan a document for conformance and some projects require PEP 8 conformance for code. Lots of code is written using a Windows style (e.g., myVar) but PEP 8 (my_var) is preferred.

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I think you should check out this official Python guide on style conventions: PEP8. If you are interested in Naming Conventions in particular, they got such a section. There are several styles of naming available, some preferred more than others. One of the most common ones seems to be lower_case_with_underscores. You will encounter this one the most.

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