[Baypiggies] History of python naming

[Guido van Rossum]

On Feb 4, 2008 3:46 PM, Jeff Younker <jeff at drinktomi.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have pointers to the history of python naming
> conventions?   I'm curious how the std library ended up with
> outliers like StringIO.StringIO.

It was simply me experimenting with different ways of doing things,
way, way long ago. And perhaps not pushing back enough on alternative
naming conventions used by early contributors. PEP 8 came much, much
later.

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