On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 22:00, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > Well then you can keep wondering.
Sorry I don't get your point. I do understand that changing all the method names would have been a major breakage, but I don't see how it would affect git history (sure, I understand that changing all the tests in the testsuite would throw a wrench in blame, but it would not be mandatory to do so), nor I understand how providing pep-8 compliant names as preferred and recommended names while keeping the old ones for compatibility would be a problem. > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 13:59 Stefano Borini <stefano.bor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, 24 Aug 2020 at 21:54, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Because all the git history would be lost, and lots of code would break. >> >> >> >> Well, names could have been converted to their snake case counterpart, >> >> possibly even leaving the old camelcase form as deprecated, and in any >> >> case the breakage was already being performed for many modules such as >> >> e.g. StringIO.StringIO >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 13:14 Stefano Borini <stefano.bor...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> Brings me to a question. Why weren't the logger and unittest module >> >> >> >> >> >> "PEP-8"ified in the transition from 2 to 3? -- Kind regards, Stefano Borini _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7JNJKUID4IIPZH2ZXIOP4QBQXRGQR45S/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
