On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:35 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> It says they are "highly discouraged" because "absolute imports are >> more portable and usually more readable", but now that people have had >> a chance to use explicit relative imports, do people still believe >> this? I mean if we truly believed this then why did we add the syntax? >> I know I have used it and love it, let alone that I don't buy the >> portability argument. > > Let's put it this way: I think that PEP 8 gets way too much > attention in Python land. > > It describes one way of doing things, but is not a bible or > strict style guide (and even says that)
Yeah but it exists. And it very useful to have, I'd say. 1 - when you start Python, it gives you a sense of how a "beautiful" Python code should look. 2 - for any new project, I personally recommend strict PEP 8 instead of inventing another convention. 3 - It's documented, widely adopted, and we have existing tools to check for compliancy out there. Cheers Tarek -- Tarek Ziadé | http://ziade.org _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers
