[Python-Dev] PEP 371: Additional Discussion

[Antoine Pitrou]

Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > What about also including a patch to fix the threading api to be pep 8
> > compliant?
> 
> I doubt that will be accepted because of the closeness threading has
> to Java's APIs.

Is this really a serious concern for some people?
If you come from the Java world and are learning Python, I suppose there are
things more difficult to assimilate than the change in method naming style...