""Martin v. Löwis"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Darren Dale schrieb: | > I was just searching for some guidance on how to name packages and modules, | > and discovered some inconsistencies on the www.python.org. | > http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html says "Module names can be | > either MixedCase or lowercase." That page also refers to PEP 8 at | > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/, which says "Modules should have | > short, all-lowercase names. ... Python packages should also have short, | > all-lowercase names ...". | > | > Which is most up to date? Is this the right place to point out that one of | > those pages needs to be updated? | | No - this is better discussed on python-dev. | | In any case, there isn't technically a contradiction. Module names | MUST be either MixedCase or lowercase; they SHOULD be lowercase. | | So unfortunately, for tradition, some module names are mixed case | (such as ConfigParser or StringIO). I can personally accept that as | a necessary evil, although I would prefer if all modules were | lower case.
I have the impression that tradition will change in 3.0 and your preference realized. Wrong? or have you not been following? To OP. Follow the should rather than the may. tjr
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