[Pytables-users] [POLL] Fully Adopt PEP8 Proposal - Please respond!

[Anthony S. <sc...@gm...>]

Dear PyTables Community,

The next version of PyTables that will be released will be v3.0 and will be
Python 3 compliant.  I thought that this would be an excellent (if not the
only) chance to bring the PyTables API into full PEP8 compliance [1].  This
would mean changing function and attribute names like:

tb.openFile() -> tb.open_file()


For the next couple of releases BOTH the new and old API would be available
to facilitate this transition (ie tb.openFile() and tb.open_file() would
both work).    To ease migration, we would also provide a 2to3-like utility
for you to use on your code base that would update the API for you
automatically.  At some fixed point in the future (v3.2?), the old API
would go away, but you would have had ample time to run this script.  The
developers either feel positively or neutral to these changes.

The question for you the user is then, would this be something that you
would like to see?  How valuable would you find this change?  Is bundling
this with the Python 3 change too much overhead?

*Please respond with a +1, +0, -0, or -1 and any comments you might
have.* I look forward to hearing from you!

Be Well
Anthony

1. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/