[Python-Dev] Changes to PEP 327: Decimal data type (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Thu Mar 18 17:16:58 EST 2004

[Shane Hathaway, on a piece of the Zope3 style guide http://tinyurl.com/2885n ]

Yes, but that policy fights with Python, leading to bad combinations.

I said "Zope" before, right ?

The first time I had to say something like "ZPythonScriptHTMLchangePrefs" to a customer over the phone, I realized that the mixed conventions are a real problem.

No argument here.

BTW, I assume this discussion is only about refining the conventions for method and function names. CamelCase for class names is still recommended, right?

It is by me, and I channel that it also is by Guido. Dissension will be crushed . Module and package names seem muddier, although I think a lot of projects (including the Python core) have been moving toward short one-word all-lower names for those (especially for packages at top level).

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