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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jun 13 19:14:14 CEST 2008

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

Nick> def getName(self): _Nick> assert self.initialized, "Thread.init() not called" _Nick> return self.name

_Why is name private to begin with? Any reason for the getters and setters? Why isn't this just an attribute? In 3.x, it's just an attribute.

Oh, is it? Where's the PEP with the API redesign? Did I miss some kind of decision-making process, weighing compatibility concerns against other issues?

Really, I think this all went way too fast, and should be rolled back and discussed properly in detail first.

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