[Python-Dev] PEP 557 Data Classes 5th posting
Eric V. Smith
eric at trueblade.com
Sun Dec 3 21:07:42 EST 2017
On 12/3/2017 8:31 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com
> <mailto:eric at trueblade.com>> wrote:
>
> On 12/3/2017 3:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>
> Thanks. I have to ask: why don't "asdict" and "astuple" respect
> PEP 8
> naming?
>
>
> I guess it depends if you think the underscore is needed to improve
> readability. "Function names should be lowercase, with words
> separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability."
>
> I don't feel strongly enough about it to change it, but part of that
> is because I'm burned out on the PEP, so I might not be a good one
> to judge at this point. I guess if I clear my head and I were doing
> it from scratch again I'd make them as_dict and as_tuple, so maybe I
> should brush aside inertia and make the change.
>
>
> The Python stdlib is incredibly inconsistent where it comes to inserting
> underscores. I think in this case it matches `namedtuple._asdict()` and
> that's good enough for me.
It also matches `attrs.asdict()`, which is what originally inspired it.
Eric.
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