On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> You want to >> use "colour" instead of "color"? Also not a problem, and should be >> easy enough for someone to understand who normally spells it the other >> way. > > > It's not a matter of failing to understand, it's about > having more than one spelling of an identifier around > imposing an extra cognitive burden. > > PEP 8 recommends against abbreviating identifiers because > it's hard to remember which abbreviation is being used > in any given context. Multiple alternative spellings > have a similar effect.
Aye, but that's only an issue if you use more than one. You're most welcome to use "colour" in a project, just be consistent. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
