Coincidentally, I changed this in flake8's pep8-naming plugin about a month ago[1], although the change has not yet made it into a release.
[1]: https://github.com/PyCQA/pep8-naming/pull/47 On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I think it should be `cls` and flake8 etc. should be fixed. > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Pim Schellart <p.schell...@princeton.edu > > wrote: > >> Dear Python developers, >> >> PEP 8 says: >> >> "Always use self for the first argument to instance methods. >> >> Always use cls for the first argument to class methods.” >> >> But what about metaclasses? >> PEP 3115 seems to suggest `cls`, and so do many Python books, however >> tools such as flake8 don’t seem to like it. >> Is there a consensus opinion, and should PEP 8 be updated? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Pim Schellart >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40p >> ython.org >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ > jon%40indelible.org > >
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