[New-bugs-announce] [issue19331] Revise PEP 8 recommendation for class names

[Barry A. Warsaw]

New submission from Barry A. Warsaw:

PEP 8 says:

"""
Class Names
Almost without exception, class names use the CapWords convention. Classes for internal use have a leading underscore in addition.
"""

yet there are some notable exceptions in practice, such as classes designed to be context managers (used with the `with` statement).

This message indicates Nick's implementation choice of a wrapper function in part to avoid naming a class with all lower cases (which look better with `with`, but break the PEP 8 convention).

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2013-October/129791.html

The PEP 8 language should be revised, but striking the right balance might be a little tricky.

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title: Revise PEP 8 recommendation for class names

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