I'm starting a new thread for this topic, so as not to hijack the one started by Steve Howell's excellent post titled "ten small Python programs".
In that thread, there was a suggestion that these examples should conform to PEP-8's style recommendations, including use of lower_case_with_underscores style for function names. I raised some questions about this suggestion, since I liked the names the way they were, but as a result, part of the discussion has drifted into a separate track about PEP-8, and naming styles. I was under the impression that lower_case_with_underscores was a dated recommendation, and that recent practice is more inclusive of mixedCase style identifiers. On the contrary, Steven Bethard straightened me out, saying that PEP-8 used to accept either style, but has been amended to accept only lower_case_with_underscores. My latest thought on the topic relates back to the Martin v. Löwis thread-that-would-not-die requesting feedback about PEP 3131, on adding support for non-ASCII identifiers in Py3K. I posted an out-of- curiosity comment asking about how underscore separators mix with Unicode identifiers, including the mechanics of actually typing an underscore on a non-US keyboard. At this point, I realized that I was taking things too far off-topic, so I decided to start a new thread. Steve, sorry for taking your thread down a rathole. I hope we can move any further PEP-8-related discussion (if the point merits any) to this thread. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
