[Python-checkins] peps: Remove outdated motivation for short module names.

[guido.van.rossum]

https://hg.python.org/peps/rev/aade283f99c0
changeset:   6120:aade283f99c0
user:        Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
date:        Tue Oct 20 20:24:08 2015 -0700
summary:
  Remove outdated motivation for short module names.

files:
  pep-0008.txt |  6 ------
  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


diff --git a/pep-0008.txt b/pep-0008.txt
--- a/pep-0008.txt
+++ b/pep-0008.txt
@@ -758,12 +758,6 @@
 should also have short, all-lowercase names, although the use of
 underscores is discouraged.
 
-Since module names are mapped to file names, and some file systems are
-case insensitive and truncate long names, it is important that module
-names be chosen to be fairly short -- this won't be a problem on Unix,
-but it may be a problem when the code is transported to older Mac or
-Windows versions, or DOS.
-
 When an extension module written in C or C++ has an accompanying
 Python module that provides a higher level (e.g. more object oriented)
 interface, the C/C++ module has a leading underscore

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Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/peps