[Python-Dev] PEP 557 Data Classes 5th posting (original) (raw)

Eric V. Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sun Dec 3 16:28:37 EST 2017

On 12/3/2017 3:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 09:02:37 -0500 "Eric V. Smith" <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

I've pushed another version of PEP 557. The only difference is changing the default value of "order" to False instead of True. This matches regular classes: instances can be tested for equality, but are unordered.

Discussion at https://github.com/ericvsmith/dataclasses/issues/104 It's already available at https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0557/ Thanks. I have to ask: why don't "asdict" and "astuple" respect PEP 8 naming?

I guess it depends if you think the underscore is needed to improve readability. "Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability."

I don't feel strongly enough about it to change it, but part of that is because I'm burned out on the PEP, so I might not be a good one to judge at this point. I guess if I clear my head and I were doing it from scratch again I'd make them as_dict and as_tuple, so maybe I should brush aside inertia and make the change.

Eric.

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