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

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+1

/Benjamin

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Anthony Scopatz [mailto:sc...@gm...]
> Skickat: den 24 juli 2012 18:39
> Till: Discussion list for PyTables
> Ämne: [Pytables-users] [POLL] Fully Adopt PEP8 Proposal - Please
> respond!
> 
> 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/