"Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Note the first sentence of the PEP: "This document gives coding > conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library for the > main Python distribution."
Even that should say "from now on". Some library code was written before PEP8. And Guido has so far discouraged purely stylistic patches to functioning code (because of the risk on introducing bugs where none exist). TJR -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
