[Python-ideas] PEP: Extended stat_result (First Draft)

[Georg Brandl]

Am 06.05.2013 20:31, schrieb Pieter Nagel:
> On Mon, 2013-05-06 at 21:56 +0400, Oleg Broytman wrote:
> 
>>    Yes, but stdlib doesn't follow this style. See, for example, built-in
>> functions -- http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html :
>> 
>> staticmethod() isinstance() basestring() execfile() issubclass() bytearray()
>> frozenset() classmethod() getattr() hasattr() memoryview() delattr() setattr()
>> 
>>    I'm sure this style is codified somewhere, don't know where.
> 
> Actually, PEP 8 *is* the coding convention for the stdlib:
> 
> "This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising
> the standard library in the main Python distribution."

Please: we *do* know PEP 8 around here.  It is a good coding style, but its
second section is the most important one of all.

(I saw you quoting PEP 8 text in RFC style with upper-case "SHOULD": this is
usually not the meaning that should be applied here.)

Georg