[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Jun 12 11:59:04 CEST 2008

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

"Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability." -- PEP 8

If I'm reading this correctly, then underscores are not required everywhere. Can some of these be shortened? function:: activecount() method:: Thread.getname() method:: Thread.isalive() method:: Thread.isdaemon() method:: Thread.setdaemon(daemonic) In some cases, the mental pronounciation changes and affects my perception of meaning. For example, Thread.setName or Thread.setname both feel like a setter to me, but Thread.setname causes a mental pause and a momentary double-take (is it the name of a set?). Actually, in this case, I think the Pythonic thing to do would be to use properties.

Thus exposing those details as thread.name, thread.alive, thread.daemonic (with the first two being read-only and the last read/write)?

+1 for that approach on the threading.Thread and multiprocessing.Process classes.

Not sure what to do about the active thread count function - shortening it as Raymond suggests would probably be fine.

Cheers, Nick.

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