[stdlib-sig] PEP 3108

[Steven Bethard]

On Jan 21, 2008 4:39 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>  * The renaming is done inconsistently, e.g.
>
>    "simple_http_server", "simple_xmlrpc_server", but "socketserver"
>
>    There should either always be an underscore to separate words,
>    or none.
>
>    I don't think that underscores in module names are particularly
>    nice, so I'd opt for going with the no-underscores versions.

The main reason for the move away from camelCase was that non-native
English speakers claimed that it was easier to find the words when
under_scores was used instead of camelCase. I assume the same argument
applies here: under_scores is better than runtogetherwords.

STeVe
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