On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> Is this just intended to discourage subclassing? If so, why give the >> misleading impression that these things can be subclassed by naming them >> as if they were classes? >> >> How should this be handled when it comes to the addition of PEP 8 >> compliant aliases? > > I don't see a problem for trivial functional wrappers to classes to be > capitalized like classes. So I'd suggest option 3: leave it as-is. Otherwise > option 2 (replace the wrappers with the actual classes) has my preference.
Yes, I believe that pretending that functions are classes is a fairly common idiom in the stdlib and out, so I see no problem leaving them alone. We haven't had any complaints about the threading Event function yet either. :) -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
