why no camelCase in PEP 8?

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2020-05-28 18:14:53 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/28/2020 4:18 PM, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
> > On 2020-05-19 05:59:30 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > > Nobody ever requires you to comply with it for any other code.
> > 
> > That's obviously not true: 
[...]
> Revise Chris' claim to "Neither the PSF nor the Python core developers
> require* that owners of non-stdlib code comply with PEP 8" and it would be
> true.

Well, yes. But "Neither the PSF nor the Python core developers" is quite
different from "Nobody ever".

That's like saying "Nobody has ever been on the moon" is true if you
replace "Nobody" with "No catholic bishop".

        hp

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