On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > If pylint says that global variables should be named like "__variable__", > that is explicitly going against PEP 8.
It doesn't say that anywhere. It includes dunder names in the regex so that you don't get spurious warnings from pylint about the formatting of names like __all__, nothing more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list