Confessions of a Python fanboy

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Iain King<iainking at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 31, 4:08 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:47:04 +0100, Tim Rowe wrote:
>>
>> >>That and the fact that I couldn't stop laughing for long enough to learn
>> >>any more when I read in the Pragmatic Programmer's Guide that "Ruby,
>> >>unlike less flexible languages, lets you alter the value of a constant."
>> >>Yep, as they say "Bug" = "Undocumented feature"!
>>
>> > That's no different from Python's "constant by convention". We don't even
>> > get a compiler warning!
>>
>> That's quite different, actually.  Python doesn't claim to have
>> constants!  Can't misinterpret what you can't have, can you?
>>
>> [Holds breath while awaiting counter-example... :]
>>
>> ~Ethan~
>
> The convention being detailed in PEP8: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> basically, anything in ALL_CAPS is a constant, assuming you follow
> those style guidelines.
>

Right, but that's a style guide and not a language definition. Nobody
claims that anything in there is a part of the language.

> Iain
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