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On 05/25/2012 10:14 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Fri, 25 May 2012 18:57:57 +0200  
Georg Brandl <g.brandl@gmx.net> wrote:

This is probably minor, but wouldn't it make more sense to have those  
constants uppercased? At least that's the general style we have in  
the codebase for enum values.

  
+1, this surprised me too.

FWIW I contributed the utime enum with the lowercase values. I don't uppercase enum values as a rule.

Uppercasing preprocessor macros is a good idea because they're not safe. There are loads of ways they can produce unexpected behavior. So if something funny is going on, and the code involves some preprocessor slight-of-hand, those identifiers pop out at you and you know to double-check them. But enum values are as safe as houses. I think of them as equivalent to const ints, which I also don't uppercase. There's no need to draw attention to them.

There's nothing in PEP 7 either way about enum nomenclature. But Benjamin has already uppercased these (and some other) enums, so I suppose the community has spoken.

/arry