2014-04-26 1:46 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > I think the tool's name is unfortunate. The first time I heard about it I > was having an in-person discussion with a developer who (I thought) said > that "PEP 8" was okay with his code (which I knew couldn't be the case) but > in fact he meant to say that (some configuration of) "pep8" didn't mind it. > This took some time to sort out and it would have avoided if the tool had > had a better name. > > That said I think it's a great tool.
Thank you, Actually I did not choose the name. I just took over the project 4 years ago by accident because I had some pull requests languishing and the author of the project was no longer interested in it. I agree that the name is a source of confusion in some cases. I've mitigated some conflicts with PEP 8 by incitating contributors to write "flake8" extensions instead of pushing more features into "pep8" itself, and also I tried to define a default configuration which is "good enough" to support the PEP 8 recommendations. -- Florent _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
