On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 11:25 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> 
> If your code has no obvious, documented convention at all for what's internal 
> and what is not, they are no worse off.
> 
> If you do have a documented convention for internal implementation details, 
> then you are no worse off. "I have better things to do than PEP8-ify old, 
> working, stable code" is a perfectly acceptable answer. "I have better things 
> to do than PEP9-ify old, working, stable code, but if you want to provide 
> regression tests and a working patch, I'll let you do so" might be an even 
> better one :-)

Welp, I guess I'm logically boxed in then.  Thanks for showing me the
errors in my thinking.  Should be no problem to manage the updating of
that 500K lines of public code.

/scarcasm

- C


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