Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> added the comment: > I dislike "followlinks" because "links" is ambiguous; both hard links > and soft links are "links", but it's only modifying behavior regarding > one of them.
Technically, in Unix world any file is a hard link. It is impossible to distinguish a hard link from the "original", they are completely equal. So I don't think that there will be a ambiguity, what links are implied, especially, if the documentation is clearly says "symbolic links". > I therefore suggest that function arguments are most similar to "method names > and instance variables"--after all, they *are* instance variables. Technically, they are local variables. > "followlinks" is comprised of two words but they are not separated by > underscores. As "getgrouplist" or "sendfile". What about such argument names as "filename" and "newline"? If being a consistent in that, then it must be "follow_symbolic_links". And "source_directory_file_descriptor" instead "src_dir_fd". > It might actually be nice to clarify PEP 8 on this. I agree. > I'm glad you think it's an improvement--we can certainly agree on that! Of course. This is the issue, for the solution of which I registered here. All other issues and patches were just distractions and practice. ;-) I am grateful to you. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15202> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
