Style help for a Smalltalk-hack

[Travis Griggs]

On Oct 22, 2012, at 6:33 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

> By the way, in Python the recommended style for variable names (well,
> what you'd call a 'variable' in other languages :-)) is lowercase with
> underscores, e.g. "byte_stream".

We went with the 

"...mixedCase is allowed only in contexts where that's already the prevailing style (e.g. threading.py), to retain backwards compatibility…"

escape clause. :)

The group of us here are working in multiple languages, and all use it (mixedCase) across all of them. Because PEP 8 makes it clear up front that "internal consistency is preferred",  we felt justified in marching on.

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Travis Griggs
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