[Python-Dev] Changes to PEP 327: Decimal data type (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Mar 18 17:57:25 EST 2004

At 02:53 PM 3/18/04 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> > BTW, I assume this discussion is only about refining the conventions > > for method and function names. CamelCase for class names is still > > recommended, right? > > It is by me, and I channel that it also is by Guido.

Indeed. > Dissension will be > crushed . Module and package names seem muddier, although I think a > lot of projects (including the Python core) have been moving toward short > one-word all-lower names for those (especially for packages at top level). Another pronouncement then: modules/packages need to be short all-lower names (no underscores). StringIO, cPickle and SimpleXMLRPCServer etc. were mistakes.

Does that mean that SimpleHTTPServer would now be servers.http.simple? Or http.servers.simple? Or...?

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