[Python-Dev] Tweaking PEP 8 guidelines for use of leading underscores (original) (raw)

Chris McDonough chrism at plope.com
Tue Jul 16 04:20:35 CEST 2013

On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 11:25 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

If your code has no obvious, documented convention at all for what's internal and what is not, they are no worse off. If you do have a documented convention for internal implementation details, then you are no worse off. "I have better things to do than PEP8-ify old, working, stable code" is a perfectly acceptable answer. "I have better things to do than PEP9-ify old, working, stable code, but if you want to provide regression tests and a working patch, I'll let you do so" might be an even better one :-)

Welp, I guess I'm logically boxed in then. Thanks for showing me the errors in my thinking. Should be no problem to manage the updating of that 500K lines of public code.

/scarcasm

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