[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Thu Dec 15 16:40:21 CET 2005

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 20:41 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 12/14/05, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 11:13 +1100, Dave Cole wrote: > > > The only thing I strongly disagree with is the promotion of javaNaming > > to equal footing with pythonnaming. > > Actually, they're not on equal footing atm. I happen to agree with you > though.

It doesn't matter. Many large projects are adopting the camelCase convention, either by choice or by accident. I did a brief review of Zope 3 and Chandler, and while neither is consistent, camelCase prevails (Chandler also has a lot of CapWords method names, wihch suggests they didn't get this from Java -- maybe from C++?).

That's fine. As always, projects (especially big framework-y ones like Zope and Chandler) are free to adopt whatever they want. Their internal consistency is more important anyway than adherence to PEP 8.

PEP 8 though is primarily about establishing guidelines for the standard library. The underline_words recommendation has been in place for 4+ years now, and modules that have been written in that time frame have been written against to those rules. I see no reason to change now just to be more Java-like.

-Barry

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