+1 !
PEP8 (or any widely used (and diligently applied) naming convention)
drastically improves discoverability and usability of an interface.
Regards,
Jon Wilson
On 07/24/2012 11:39 AM, Anthony Scopatz wrote:
Dear PyTables Community,
The next version of PyTables that will be released will be v3.0 and
will be Python 3 compliant. I thought that this would be an excellent
(if not the only) chance to bring the PyTables API into full PEP8
compliance [1]. This would mean changing function and attribute names
like:
tb.openFile() -> tb.open_file()
For the next couple of releases BOTH the new and old API would be
available to facilitate this transition (ie tb.openFile()and
tb.open_file() would both work). To ease migration, we would also
provide a 2to3-like utility for you to use on your code base that
would update the API for you automatically. At some fixed point in
the future (v3.2?), the old API would go away, but you would have had
ample time to run this script. The developers either feel positively
or neutral to these changes.
The question for you the user is then, would this be something that
you would like to see? How valuable would you find this change? Is
bundling this with the Python 3 change too much overhead?
*Please respond with a +1, +0, -0, or -1 and any comments you might
have.* I look forward to hearing from you!
Be Well
Anthony
1. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
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