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

[Fernando P. <fs...@gm...>]

+1

I fully agree on following the Python (standard) naming convention
(PEP8 compliance). This will make the PyTables API even more
"pythonic" and, therefore, more intuitive (if that is possible).

Thanks!

-fernando



On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Anthony Scopatz <sc...@gm...> wrote:
> 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/
>
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