pep 8 constants

[Benjamin Peterson]

Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan <at> case.edu> writes:

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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Aahz <aahz <at> pythoncraft.com> wrote:In
article <mailman.7174.1231915778.3487.python-list <at> python.org>,
> Brendan Miller <catphive <at> catphive.net> wrote:>>PEP 8 doesn't mention
anything about using all caps to indicate a constant.Now it does!
 Seehttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/Thanks for bringing this up!
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> Since the constants in the std lib (like math.pi and math.e) no longer follow
PEP 8, should we expect them to change at some point in the future?

No, I don't think so. These are already well known as constants. Besides it
would break backward compatibility for little gain.