[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores

[Nick Coghlan]

Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>> "Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as
>> necessary to improve readability." -- PEP 8
>>
>> If I'm reading this correctly, then underscores are not required
>>  everywhere.  Can some of these be shortened?
>>
>>   function:: active_count()
>>   method:: Thread.get_name()
>>   method:: Thread.is_alive()
>>   method:: Thread.is_daemon()
>>   method:: Thread.set_daemon(daemonic)
>>
>> In some cases, the mental pronounciation changes and affects my perception
>> of meaning.  For example, Thread.setName or Thread.setname both feel like a
>> setter to me, but Thread.set_name causes a mental pause and a momentary
>> double-take (is it the name of a set?).
> 
> Actually, in this case, I think the Pythonic thing to do would be to
> use properties.

Thus exposing those details as thread.name, thread.alive, 
thread.daemonic (with the first two being read-only and the last 
read/write)?

+1 for that approach on the threading.Thread and multiprocessing.Process 
classes.

Not sure what to do about the active thread count function - shortening 
it as Raymond suggests would probably be fine.

Cheers,
Nick.

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