Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:58:49 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > > > >> On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:08:37 +0100, Diez B. Roggisch wrote: > >> > >> > Familiarize yourself with PEP8 for naming and > >> > coding-conventions first. > >> > >> Enough of the PEP8-fascism please. It is not compulsory to follow > >> PEP8 in order to be allowed to learn Python. > > > > You are responding to something in Diez's message that I can't > > see. Nowhere does he say anything about PEP 8 being compulsory. > > Quite the contrary, he suggests gaining *familiarity* with PEP 8, > > and calls it a set of *conventions*. > > He doesn't *suggest* anything. He uses the imperative case -- it's a > command.
Regardless, even if it was an imperial order with government backing, the instruction was not to *follow* PEP 8, but to *become familiar with* it. That isn't fascism, and to read that into it and assume a commandment that Diez didn't make is overreaction on your part. -- \ “[W]hoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you | `\ unjust.” —Voltaire | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list