On 2/1/2019 1:59 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
On 1/30/19 6:07 PM, David Mertz wrote:
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019, 4:23 PM Abe Dillon <abedil...@gmail.com
<mailto:abedil...@gmail.com> wrote:
Consider thatmath.pi and math.e are constants that are not all
caps, have
you ever been tempted to re-bind those variables?
I generally use 'from math import pi as PI' because the lower case is
confusing and misnamed.
Another message here reminded me that the datetime classes are not named
DateTime like they should be. Why not rename them, PI and E too, with
suitable long-term deprecation period?
Because the hassle involved in making the change, supporting both for a
long time, invalidating tons of working code, invalidating tutorials,
migrating existing pickle files, etc. isn't worth any slight gain in
consistency.
(As it looks like ALL_CAPS is here to stay.)
Yes, I'd say so.
Eric
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