[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores

[Facundo Batista]

2008/6/12 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:

>>  function:: active_count()
>>  method:: Thread.get_name()
>>  method:: Thread.is_alive()
>>  method:: Thread.is_daemon()
>>  method:: Thread.set_daemon(daemonic)
>
> +1 on opting for properties in the specific cases here where it makes sense.

I'm +1 too... but which is the normal procedure here?

Should it be...

  2.n : .is_alive()
  2.n+1 : .is_alive() (deprecated), .alive (recommended)
  2.n+2 : .alive

...?

Regards,

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. Facundo

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