[Python-ideas] PEP for Python folder structure

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 10:45:31AM +0200, Armin Wieser wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to write a PEP about folder structure in python projects.

Why?

PEP stands for Python Enhancement Proposal, and relate to suggested 
changes to the Python language and standard library. Your blog post 
about folder structure:

> [0] http://jcalderone.livejournal.com/39794.html

is interesting, but it has nothing to do with either Python the language 
or the standard library, as far as I can tell. In fact, some of your 
project suggestions go against best-practice, or at least common 
practice:

"Don't put your source in a directory called src"

Really? I think you'll find many people disagree with that.

I think your blog post is a good blog post, and deserves to have people 
read it and discuss it. With feedback from others, I think it might even 
become a good How To layout projects. But I think it would be a poor 
PEP.

Of course, you can write a post in the format of a PEP. Just don't call 
it a PEP unless it is a proposal for an enhancement to Python, or at 
least related to development of Python, e.g. PEP 8.


-- 
Steven