The Python standard library and PEP8

[Colin J. Williams]

Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Exploring the Python standard library, I was surprised to see that several 
> packages (ConfigParser, logging...) use mixed case for methods all over the 
> place. I assume that they were written back when the Python styling 
> guidelines were not well-defined.
> 
> Given that it's rather irritating (not to mention violating the principle of 
> least surprise) to have this inconsistency, wouldn't it make sense to clean 
> up the API by marking old-style, mixed-case methods as deprecated (but 
> keep them around anyway) and add equivalent methods following the 
> lowercase_with_underscores convention?
> 
> On an unrelated note, it would be *really* nice to have a length property on 
> strings. Even Java has that!
Why not anySequence.len()?

Colin W.

PS Yes, I know this has been flogged before.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Emm