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

[Jacob B. <jac...@gm...>]

+1 of course! ;)

-Jacob

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Fernando Paolo <fs...@gm...> wrote:

> +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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> Fernando Paolo
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