[Python-Dev] Further PEP 8 compliance issues in threading and multiprocessing

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Sep 1 16:36:00 CEST 2008


Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Is this just intended to discourage subclassing? If so, why give the
> misleading impression that these things can be subclassed by naming them
> as if they were classes?
> 
> How should this be handled when it comes to the addition of PEP 8
> compliant aliases?

I don't see a problem for trivial functional wrappers to classes to be
capitalized like classes. So I'd suggest option 3: leave it as-is. Otherwise
option 2 (replace the wrappers with the actual classes) has my preference.





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