python style guide inconsistencies

[Terry Reedy]

""Martin v. Löwis"" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote in message 
news:462BBE6F.9000007 at v.loewis.de...
| Darren Dale schrieb:
| > 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? Is this the right place to point out that one 
of
| > those pages needs to be updated?
|
| No - this is better discussed on python-dev.
|
| In any case, there isn't technically a contradiction. Module names
| MUST be either MixedCase or lowercase; they SHOULD be lowercase.
|
| So unfortunately, for tradition, some module names are mixed case
| (such as ConfigParser or StringIO). I can personally accept that as
| a necessary evil, although I would prefer if all modules were
| lower case.

I have the impression that tradition will change in 3.0 and your preference 
realized.
Wrong? or have you not been following?

To OP.  Follow the should rather than the may.

tjr