{"id":1404,"date":"2022-07-11T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2022-07-11T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:58:36","slug":"python-proper-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/python-proper-name\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Python&#8221; is a proper name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In just the last few days I&#8217;ve seen a half dozen instances of the phrase\u00a0<em>python package<\/em> or\u00a0<em>python script<\/em> in published academic work.\u00a0It&#8217;s disappointing to me that this got by the reviewers, action editors, and copy editors, since <em>Python<\/em> is obviously a proper name and should be in titlecase. (The fact that the interpreter command is <code>python<\/code> is irrelevant.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In just the last few days I&#8217;ve seen a half dozen instances of the phrase\u00a0python package or\u00a0python script in published academic work.\u00a0It&#8217;s disappointing to me that this got by the reviewers, action editors, and copy editors, since Python is obviously a proper name and should be in titlecase. (The fact that the interpreter command is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/python-proper-name\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Python&#8221; is a proper name&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","category-language","category-presentation-of-self","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}