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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jul 15, 2013, at 11:02 PM, Chris McDonough wrote:

>Given that misunderstanding, is there a way to divorce stdlib-centric
>guidelines like the one being discussed now from "PEP8"-ness?  I don't
>think any amount of marketing effort or reasoned explanation is going to
>separate "PEP8" from "correct code" in people's minds at this point.

The standard seems to be "if the pep8 program complains, I forward that
upstream", so it's probably most effective to discuss with them.  OTOH, we've
had to clarify PEP 8 in order to get the pep8 developers to adjust their tool,
most recently e.g. the closing brace/bracket/paren for multiline collections.

-Barry