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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 13:10:50 CEST 2013

On 16 July 2013 20:28, Richard Oudkerk <shibturn at gmail.com> wrote:

On 16/07/2013 6:44am, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Clarifying what constitutes an internal interface in a way that doesn't require renaming anything is a necessary prerequisite for bundling or bootstrapping the pip CLI in Python 3.4 (as pip exposes its internal implemetnation API as "import pip" rather than "import pip" and renaming it would lead to a lot of pointless code churn). Without that concern, the topic never would have come up. BTW, how does the use of all effect things? Somewhere I got the idea that if a module uses all then anything not listed is internal. I take it that is wrong?

Gah, you're right. I did consider that, then forgot to include it in the proposed text.

Rather than throwing more versions of the text at the list, I'll create a tracker issue and post a proposed patch for PEP 8.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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