Style for modules with lots of constants

[Ben Finney]

Neil Cerutti <horpner at yahoo.com> writes:

> Calls to Glk functions are thus ugly and tedious.
>
>     scriptref = glk.fileref_create_by_prompt(
>             glk.fileusage_Transcript | glk.fileusage_TextMode,
>             glk.filemode_WriteAppend, 0)
>
> Please give me some good style advice for this situation.

One thing that has been implicit in other replies is the naming
convention for constants. There's nothing stopping a user from
re-binding a name in Python, so we use the convention that constants
are named with UPPER_CASE to indicate they shouldn't be re-bound.

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Ben Finney