[Python-3000] Will standard library modules comply with PEP 8?

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Mon Aug 27 21:25:35 CEST 2007


On 8/27/07, Dennis Brakhane <brakhane at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry if this has been answered before, I search the mailing list and
> didn't find anything.
>
> I'd like to ask if the modules in the standard library will comply
> with PEP 8. I've always found it weird that - in the logging module,
> for example - I have to get the logger via getLogger instead of
> get_logger. I understand that the logging module is older than PEP 8
> and therefore couldn't be changed. So if there's a time to "fix"
> logging, it'd probably be now.

Standard library decisions have not been made yet.  But this could
definitely be a possibility.

-Brett


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