Emmanuel Surleau wrote:
Hi there,
Exploring the Python standard library, I was surprised to see that several
packages (ConfigParser, logging...) use mixed case for methods all over the
place. I assume that they were written back when the Python styling
guidelines were not well-defined.
Given that it's rather irritating (not to mention violating the principle of
least surprise) to have this inconsistency, wouldn't it make sense to clean
up the API by marking old-style, mixed-case methods as deprecated (but
keep them around anyway) and add equivalent methods following the
lowercase_with_underscores convention?
On an unrelated note, it would be *really* nice to have a length property on
strings. Even Java has that!
Why not anySequence.len()?
Colin W.
PS Yes, I know this has been flogged before.
Cheers,
Emm
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