On Nov 03, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Ben Finney wrote:

>Is this a case where it would be better if the package names had the
>leading underscore: ‘_utils’, ‘_suite’, etc.?
>
>Does the convention on single-leading-underscore identifiers as “don't
>rely on this name staying the same in future versions” hold for package
>names?

I would vote "yes".  I have seen more and more packages use this convention to
signal that the module name is not intended to be imported directly.  This
should be part of any PEP 8 recommendation, IMO.

-Barry

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