[Python-3000] PEP 3108: Standard Library Reorganization

[Brett Cannon]

On 1/4/07, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:06 AM, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
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> > On 1/3/07, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >>>> PEP 8 specifies that modules "should have short, lowercase names,
> >>>> without underscores" [#pep-0008]_.
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> >>> Why does the restriction on underscores exist? Removing that
> >>> restriction would make lowercase-only names easier to use
> >>> (basehttpserver vs. base_http_server).
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> >> I think Guido said he preferred it that way.
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> > Or maybe he changed his mind?
> > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-December/005234.html
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> I propose to change PEP 8 in the following way:
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>      Package and Module Names
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>        Modules should have short, all-lowercase names.  Underscores
> can be used
>        in the module name if it improves readability.  Python
> packages should
>        also have short, all-lowercase names, although the use of
> underscores is
>        discouraged.


+1 from me.  I would just mention the rule should extends to modules within
packages.

-Brett
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