[Python-Dev] PEP 371: Additional Discussion

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> From: "Mike Klaas" <mike.klaas at gmail.com>
>>
>> A cleaner way to effectuate the transition would be to leave
>> the camelCase API in 2.6 (for both modules), switch to PEP 8
>> in py3k (for  both modules)
>
> +1
> That makes good sense.

No. It makes *no* sense to introduce a new API in 2.6 and change it
again in 3.0. That sounds like another foolish consistency.

>> , and provide threading3k and multiprocessing3k modules  in 2.6 that
>> façade the 2.6 API with the PEP 8 API.
>
> +0
> PEP 8 is nice but it's not that important.
>
>
> Raymond
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