why no camelCase in PEP 8?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2020-05-19 09:53:01 +0100, Rhodri James wrote:
> On 18/05/2020 22:07, Eli the Bearded wrote:
> > 	camelCase	->	 noCamelCase
> > 	snake_case	->	 no_snake_case
> > 
> > One of those is easier to "grep" for than the other.
> 
> Eh.  A changed case in the one, an extra character in the other; that's
> pretty much the same difficulty really.  I certainly don't find it "hard" to
> grep for _snake_case.

I think you misunderstood his argument. He is saying that by searching
for /snake_case/ you will find both "snake_case" and "no_snake_case".
But /camelCase/ won't match "noCamelCase" - you have to search for
/[cC]amelCase/ instead.

I'm not sure if I'm convinced by that. I prefer snake_case simply for
aesthetic reasons. My native language is German, so I should be used to
gratuitous capitalisation from early childhood - but I still find
camelCase ugly.

        hp

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