[Python-Dev] Further PEP 8 compliance issues in threading and multiprocessing (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 11:52:05 CEST 2008

Tony Nelson wrote:

I suppose the question is what a capitalized name promises. If it means only "Class", then how should "Returns a new object", either from a Class or a Factory, be shown? Perhaps a new convention is needed for Factories?

Any function can always return a new object (e.g. operator.add(list1, list2), so I don't think we need a special naming convention to explicitly flag factory functions.

The question I am raising is whether or not aberrations in the other direction (factory functions that are named like a class, incorrectly implying they can be used as a base class or as part of isinstance() or issubclass() checks) are enough of a concern to add additional aliases to the threading API, and to further modify the multiprocessing API this close to RC1.

(Issue 3352 actually provides a complete list of the names that are potentially at issue for both multiprocessing and threading - note that Ben, with my concurrence, has closed that issue on the assumption that the current naming scheme for these factory functions is acceptable).

Cheers, Nick.

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