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On Behalf Of Abe Dillon Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 2:02 PM To: Python-Ideas Subject: [Python-ideas] AMEND PEP-8 TO DISCOURAGE ALL CAPS I keep coming back to this great video https://vimeo.com/74316116 about coding style, and one point in particular rings true to me: ALL_CAPS_IS_OBNOXIOUS
Then by all means, adopt some other convention for your own project's style guides. PEP-8 is not some dictatorial decree from on high that all python be written one way and one way only - heck, even the standard library ignores PEP-8 when convenient, and the committers are loth to merge patches that only correct style issues.
It destroys the visual flow of code and for what? To signify a global, constant, or Enum? Is that really so important? I don't think so. I think the all caps style has out-lived its usefulness and needs to go the way of the dodo.
I disagree. They look fine to me, and don't break the flow of reading code for me.
The last time I saw all caps used appropriately was in a YouTube comment where some guy was ranting about the communist Jewish banker conspiracy to control the world. In that case, all caps clearly communicated to me that the person was a frothing lunatic (thought find the idea of communist bankers intriguing).
Last I looked, you could not create variables in YouTube comments, so I don't see how that is germane.
Currently PEP-8 prescribes all caps for constants https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#constants and uses the all cap variable "FILES" as an example in a different section. <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#when-to-use-trailing- commas> It also appears to be the defacto-standard for enums (based on the documentation <https://docs.python.org/3/library/enum.html#creating- an-enum> )
I don't think it's necessary to make any breaking changes. Just pep-8 and (of less importance) spurious documentation examples.
Again, you are free to use whatever style guide you choose - an act which in itself is compliant with PEP-8.