[Python-Dev] Changes to PEP 327: Decimal data type

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Mar 18 17:57:25 EST 2004


At 02:53 PM 3/18/04 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> > > BTW, I assume this discussion is only about refining the conventions
> > > for method and function names.  CamelCase for class names is still
> > > recommended, right?
> >
> > It is by me, and I channel that it also is by Guido.
>
>Indeed.
>
> > Dissension will be
> > crushed <wink>.  Module and package names seem muddier, although I think a
> > lot of projects (including the Python core) have been moving toward short
> > one-word all-lower names for those (especially for packages at top level).
>
>Another pronouncement then: modules/packages need to be short
>all-lower names (no underscores).
>
>StringIO, cPickle and SimpleXMLRPCServer etc. were mistakes.

Does that mean that SimpleHTTPServer would now be servers.http.simple?  Or 
http.servers.simple?  Or...?




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