PEP about recommended project folder layout

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2022 at 20:27, Weatherby,Gerard <gweatherby at uchc.edu> wrote:
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> I’m not aware of any standard convention for laying out packages.
>
> PEP 8 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/) specifies conventions for how to write Python, so a standard layout PEP would not be inconsistent.
>

PEP 8 species rules for laying out the code of the Python standard
library. Its adoption by other projects does not constitute the Python
developers declaring that it's a convention for how to write all
Python code.

A better example would be PEP 257 https://peps.python.org/pep-0257/
but even that is more for the purpose of tooling. It does at least try
to describe usage conventions, though.

Conventions for laying out packages (as opposed to actual requirements
defined by the packaging system itself) would be better described
somewhere other than a PEP.

ChrisA