python style guide inconsistencies

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Darren Dale wrote:

> I was just searching for some guidance on how to name packages and
> modules, and discovered some inconsistencies on the
> www.python.org. http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html
> says "Module names can be either MixedCase or lowercase." That
> page also refers to PEP 8 at
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/, which says "Modules
> should have short, all-lowercase names. ... Python packages should
> also have short, all-lowercase names ...".
> 
> Which is most up to date? 

The priority is, IMHO, clear. The old style guide essay says, at the
beginning:

| This style guide has been converted to several PEPs (Python
| Enhancement Proposals): PEP 8 for the main text, PEP 257 for
| docstring conventions. See the PEP index.  

So PEP 8 is the most recent.

Regards,


Björn

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