On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:09:21 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: >> Brendan Miller a écrit : >>> PEP 8 doesn't mention anything about using all caps to indicate a >>> constant. >>> >>> Is all caps meaning "don't reassign this var" a strong enough >>> convention to not be considered violating good python style? I see a >>> lot of people using it, but I also see a lot of people writing >>> non-pythonic code... so I thought I'd see what the consensus is. >> >> Most - if not all - of the python code I've seen so far used this >> convention, and I always used (and respected) it myself. > > I reject this convention because any form of caps significantly > increases vocal load for disabled programmers using speech recognition > through extra utterances, and degraded recognition. [...] > so I reject pep 8 because I have no voice safe alternative
And you are perfectly entitled to. That puts you at a disadvantage if you wish to submit code for the standard library, where PEP 8 compliance is required, but for your own code you are entitled to use whatever conventions you prefer. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
