[Python-ideas] AMEND PEP-8 TO DISCOURAGE ALL CAPS

[Eric V. Smith]

On 2/1/2019 1:59 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> 
> On 1/30/19 6:07 PM, David Mertz wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4:23 PM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     Consider thatmath.pi and math.e are constants that are not all 
>> caps, have
>>     you ever been tempted to re-bind those variables?
>>
>> I generally use 'from math import pi as PI' because the lower case is 
>> confusing and misnamed.
> 
> 
> Another message here reminded me that the datetime classes are not named 
> DateTime like they should be.  Why not rename them, PI and E too, with 
> suitable long-term deprecation period?

Because the hassle involved in making the change, supporting both for a 
long time, invalidating tons of working code, invalidating tutorials, 
migrating existing pickle files, etc. isn't worth any slight gain in 
consistency.

> (As it looks like ALL_CAPS is here to stay.)

Yes, I'd say so.

Eric