Is PEP-8 a Code or More of a Guideline?

[Sergei Organov]

Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> writes:
[...]
> On the other hand, I'm convinced that words_with_underscores, is easier to 
> read.  This is especially true when abbreviations creep into variable 
> names.  It's certainly easier to parse ip_address as compared to IPAddress.  
> Same with snmp_manager vs SNMPManager.

Well, you don't capitalize abbreviations like that in a classic
CamelCase, I believe. Those names ought to be SnmpManager and
IpAddress. Though there is still problem with digits, e.g., Crc24Accum.

-- Sergei.