Josh Holland <j...@joshh.co.uk> writes: > On 2010-01-28, exar...@twistedmatrix.com <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > Have you actually looked at any of the standard library? > Not recently or in depth, no. I would have thought that it would be of > high quality. I must have been mistaken.
Style conventions were introduced relatively late in the history of Python (PEP 7, PEP 8, and PEP 257 were created in 2001). The existing standard library code works as-is, so no particular effort has gone into cleaning it up to retroactively conform. Also, existing APIs in the standard library tend to be preserved as non-conformant (I'm looking at you, ‘logging’ and ‘unittest’) rather than breaking existing code by changing the API. The end result is that there are huge swaths of the standard library that do not adhere to the style conventions. It could even be argued that part of the reason for introducing the official conventions was to limit the scale of the damage already done. -- \ “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” —Aldous | `\ Huxley | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
