On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 15:04, Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
Ben Finney <ben+python@...> writes:
I think you mean “python_pep8_style_underscored_names”
How would these names be provided? As simple ‘fooName = foo_name’? Or would the PEP-8 one be preferred, deprecating the non-conformant name?
I don't see any need for deprecation, as it's a personal preference rather than anything else. And yes, just a 'foo_name = fooName' is what I was thinking of.
I am not going to start up a discussion on moving logging or unittest over to PEP 8 standards, but I want to make clear it is not a personal preference thing but coding standards thing. Both the logging and unittest get a pass on not meeting our standard for historical reasons and that's it; nothing to do with personal preference.
Now, this has come up in the past and Guido has said he doesn't think it's really worth doing. Personally, it only makes sense to me if this is going to be done for the whole of the stdlib which isn't PEP-8 conformant. And you have to question whether the time to be spent on this couldn't be spent on some *real* improvements ;-)
I agree. This would be more of a Py4k thing then bothering with it in Python 3 now. -Brett