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

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I believe that pretending that functions are classes is a fairly
common idiom in the stdlib and out, so I see no problem leaving them
alone. We haven't had any complaints about the threading Event
function yet either. :)

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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson
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