Steven D'Aprano <ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> writes: > If you *are* willing to do the work, the chances would still be > pretty slim. Guido has just rejected a patch adding PEP 8 compliant > aliases for types like datetime […] As Guido has quoted before, "A > foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds".
Indeed, that quote is prominent in PEP 8 itself. gert <gert.cuyk...@gmail.com> writes: > Not that I can't live without, but I am just wondering why they did > not [name built-in types consistently with other classes] in the > first place? Because, in the first place, built-in types were disjoint from user-defined classes. The latter could not derive from the former, and it was helpful to know the difference. The reason no longer exists (since built-in types and user types are now in a unified hierarchy), but the difference is well entrenched now and I personally see little benefit in changing it. -- \ “The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more | `\ expected.” —Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Ed., 1972-06-12 | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
