Noob question: Is all this typecasting normal?

[Aahz]

[following up late]

In article <2b3c916e-6908-4b12-933f-8f7bfa86cebc at i20g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Russ P. <Russ.Paielli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Fair enough, but for code that is not intended for general public
>usage (i.e., most code) so-called camelCase is every bit as good if
>not better than using underscores to divide variable names. It saves a
>few characters, and in my opinion it's significantly easier to read.
>Identifiers divided by underscores always appear to me at first glance
>to be multiple words, and I find that very annoying.
>
>So unless you think the standard library will someday include code for
>air traffic management, I'll stick with camelCase, and I'll thank you
>for not making an issue of it.

You are missing the point: suppose you write a useful library in your air
traffic management application, maybe one that does a good job of
handling user input.  If you have done a proper job of abstracting it
from your application as a whole, you could easily publicize it, but it
will never get into the standard library unless it meets current PEP8
guidelines.  Why fuss about trying to figure out which parts of your
application might in the future be published?
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