[Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

[Donald Stufft]

On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:

> On 04/25/2014 03:26 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>> 
>> pep8.py doesn’t violate PEP8, it just takes a stricter view of it.
> 
> If pep8 reports errors on things that PEP 8 says are okay, that's a violation.
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Not really, any code that passes the pep8.py check is perfectly valid in the eyes of PEP8,
if a check was implemented to say, require camelCase method names, then that would
be a violation of a check. Being stricter is not a violation, it’s being stricter.

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