Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

Steve Howell showell30 at yahoo.com
Sun May 27 10:06:11 EDT 2007


--- Carsten Haese <carsten at uniqsys.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 07:30 +0000, OKB (not
> okblacke) wrote:
> >     	Underscores are harder to type than any
> alphanumeric character.  
> 
> This is a discussion about underscores versus
> capital letters denoting
> the word boundaries in identifiers. How is an
> underscore harder to type
> than a capital letter?
> 

longer reach with the pinkie on American keyboards

Slowly type the following two keywords, you'll see
what I mean:

hop_count
hopCount

Also note the number of characters.




       
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