Re: [code-quality] Valid global and constant names

2016-08-26 Thread Ben Finney
Will S writes: > I am trying to understand why pylint treats module-level global > variables as constants when checking the validity of their names. One thing to realise is that this is a case where the term “variable” doesn't really help us. The language only knows that it's a name bound to an

[code-quality] Valid global and constant names

2016-08-26 Thread Will S
I am trying to understand why pylint treats module-level global variables as constants when checking the validity of their names. I though pylint followed PEP8 but if I look here: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#id42 I see that global variables should follow the same format as function na