[Python-Dev] Tweaking PEP 8 guidelines for use of leading underscores

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/15/2013 11:11 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> I'll look into adding some stronger wording at the top making it clear
> that while PEP 8 is a useful starting point and a good default if a
> project doesn't have a defined style guide of it's own, it is *not*
> the be-all-and-end-all for Python style guides. Treating it as such as
> an abuse of the PEP, pure and simple.

How about (re)naming it
Style Guide for Python Standard Library Code

Without 'Standard Library' in the title, I can see how some people might 
think it meant to apply to all code. I do not think we need to worry 
about the above being too narrow.

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Terry Jan Reedy