On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 15:04, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sa...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@...> writes: > > > I think you mean “python_pep8_style_underscored_names” > > > > How would these names be provided? As simple ‘fooName = foo_name’? Or > > would the PEP-8 one be preferred, deprecating the non-conformant name? > > I don't see any need for deprecation, as it's a personal preference rather > than > anything else. And yes, just a 'foo_name = fooName' is what I was thinking > of. > > I am not going to start up a discussion on moving logging or unittest over to PEP 8 standards, but I want to make clear it is not a personal preference thing but coding standards thing. Both the logging and unittest get a pass on not meeting our standard for historical reasons and that's it; nothing to do with personal preference. > Now, this has come up in the past and Guido has said he doesn't think it's > really worth doing. Personally, it only makes sense to me if this is going > to be > done for the whole of the stdlib which isn't PEP-8 conformant. And you have > to > question whether the time to be spent on this couldn't be spent on some > *real* > improvements ;-) > I agree. This would be more of a Py4k thing then bothering with it in Python 3 now. -Brett
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