On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>>
>> I say leave the new names in 3.0 and let the 2-to-3 tool do its job.
>> Why confuse the 2.6 landscape with double naming clutter.
>
> To increase the common subset of code which can run on both 2.6 and 3.0
> *without* invoking 2to3?
>

Right. 2.6 is trying to be as much of a reasonable subset of Python
3.0 as possible. This includes module names.

> PEP-8'ifying these names also makes them easier for at least me to remember
> (since I don't have to worry about whether or not the module name includes
> unexpected underscores or strange capitalisation)

That too. =)

-Brett
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