On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 at 19:03, Abe Dillon
Currently PEP-8 prescribes all caps for constants and uses the all cap variable "FILES" as an example in a different section. It also appears to be the defacto-standard for enums (based on the documentation)
I don't think it's necessary to make any breaking changes. Just pep-8 and (of less importance) spurious documentation examples.
If you don't like the recommendation, just don't follow it. It's not like it's set in stone or anything. Personally, I like it and I'm glad it's used on the projects I work on. But you do what suits you. As it's unlikely that the stdlib will stop using caps for constants, changing PEP 8 isn't appropriate (see the first line of the PEP - "This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python distribution"). Paul