[Python-Dev] Re: Notes on PEP 8

2021-08-26 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 26, 2021, at 12:05, Brett Cannon wrote: > > I wouldn't be opposed to that personally. I think a lot of people just think > PEP 8 is a doc for the community when it is actually for Python itself and it > happens to be very convenient for others to use. Although we obviously > understand

[Python-Dev] Re: Notes on PEP 8

2021-08-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 3:02 AM Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >> However, it has become a de facto standard for all Python code, and in the >> document itself, there is frequent wording akin to "Identifiers used in the >> standard library must be ASCII compatible ...", and even advice for third >> p

[Python-Dev] Re: Notes on PEP 8

2021-08-26 Thread Brett Cannon
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:38 PM Christopher Barker wrote: > As I was working on removing Python 2 references from PEP 8 (PR: > https://github.com/python/peps/pull/2059), I tried to avoid any other > copy-editing. > > However, I noted a few things that maybe could use some attention: > > stdlib o

[Python-Dev] Re: Notes on PEP 8

2021-08-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
> > However, it has become a de facto standard for all Python code, and in the > document itself, there is frequent wording akin to "Identifiers used in the > standard library must be ASCII compatible ...", and even advice for third > party libraries. > > Which I think is acknowledging that PEP 8 i