
Brett Cannon <brett@...> writes:
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.
Sorry, Brett, you're right. I wasn't trying to skirt around the importance of having a common coding style. When I said "personal preference", I was referring to the fact that some people get somewhat exercised about the issue, to the extent that the word "hate" comes up in the discussion. Typically it's not because they're PEP 8 zealots; more commonly, they're used to it from their Unix/C experience and find the Pascal, Java,and C# conventions obnoxious. I'm not personally tied to any convention, I normally work with the convention for the project. Logging's divergence from PEP 8 is, as you say, historical, and when the Py4K time comes around, I'll be rolling up my sleeves and getting on with the conversion :-) Regards, Vinay Sajip