On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 5:42 PM Matthias Bussonnier <
bussonniermatth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
> My original request on bpo[1] was for `re` which is actively maintained,
> but I was advised to ask for a more general policy and thoughts here as
> whether renaming of a an exception was acceptable
> I'm torn -- on the one hand, these very old modules may as well stay frozen
in time (please double check that they aren't listed in PEP 594)
And
> I expect that will be quite common — older code commonly uses lower case
class names
Thank, checking 594 is a good idea; I understand why you are
On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 1:02 PM Guido van Rossum wrote
> check that there are no *other* classes in a module that also use a
> lowercase naming convention (if there are, that module needs more thought
> before we change just the exception name).
>
I expect that will be quite common — older code
I'm torn -- on the one hand, these very old modules may as well stay frozen
in time (please double check that they aren't listed in PEP 594). On the
other hand, for modules that are still actively maintained, the exception
may as well be named Error instead of error, and a rename of error -> Error
On 2019-12-06 3:58 p.m., Christopher Barker wrote:
I notice that most(all?) of those are from pretty old modules, which
explains the "old", pre PEP-8 names.
I think it would be good to clean this up with a set of aliases -- but
it is a fair bit of code-churn for not much real gain. I guess i
I notice that most(all?) of those are from pretty old modules, which
explains the "old", pre PEP-8 names.
I think it would be good to clean this up with a set of aliases -- but it
is a fair bit of code-churn for not much real gain. I guess it comes down
to:
- How much maintenance do those modules
Thanks for pointing those out.
At least when the alias is `error = OtherName` the text is the stack trace are
informative.
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05.12.19 21:25, Matthias Bussonnier пише:
I've been tripped up a couple of time by a few Exception names being lower case
both in code and tracebacks. In particular `error` (all lower case)
I tend to read `error` as a function instead of a class.
According to my non-scientific grep-foo, I find
