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

[Andre' Walker-L. <wal...@gm...>]

+1

while it will be painful to switch now, it will be more painful to switch when I have had time to write more code in the old style.

Andre




On Jul 25, 2012, at 12:37 AM, <ben...@lf...> <ben...@lf...> wrote:

> +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/
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