[Python-Dev] PEP 371 Discussion (pyProcessing Module)

[r.m.oudkerk]

On 31/05/2008, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/5/30 Farshid Lashkari <flashk at gmail.com>:
>> I'm not sure if there will be any side affects to modifying
>> sys.executable though. Should this be the official way of supporting
>> embedded interpreters or should there be a
>> multiprocessing.setExecutable() method?
>
> +1 for setExecutable (I'd prefer set_executable, to be PEP 8
> compliant). Make it explicit, rather than fiddling with stuff in sys
> manually.

That is easy to do.

An issue not mentioned in the PEP is naming conventions.  In recent
versions I have tried to consistently use mixedCase for functions and
methods (other than factory functions) because that is what threading
does (give or take settrace(), setprofile(), stack_size().)

I am certainly open to using lowercase/lower_case_with_underscores for
all functions/methods except for Process's methods and possibly
currentProcess(), but I would like some feed back on that.