[Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

[Florent]

2014-04-26 1:46 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:
> I think the tool's name is unfortunate. The first time I heard about it I
> was having an in-person discussion with a developer who (I thought) said
> that "PEP 8" was okay with his code (which I knew couldn't be the case) but
> in fact he meant to say that (some configuration of) "pep8" didn't mind it.
> This took some time to sort out and it would have avoided if the tool had
> had a better name.
>
> That said I think it's a great tool.

Thank you,

Actually I did not choose the name. I just took over the project 4
years ago by accident because I had some pull requests languishing and
the author of the project was no longer interested in it.
I agree that the name is a source of confusion in some cases.
I've mitigated some conflicts with PEP 8 by incitating contributors to
write "flake8" extensions instead of pushing more features into "pep8"
itself, and also I tried to define a default configuration which is
"good enough" to support the PEP 8 recommendations.


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Florent