[Python-Dev] PEP 557 Data Classes 5th posting

[Eric V. Smith]

On 12/3/2017 8:31 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Eric V. Smith <eric at trueblade.com 
> <mailto:eric at trueblade.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/3/2017 3:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:


> 
>         Thanks.  I have to ask: why don't "asdict" and "astuple" respect
>         PEP 8
>         naming?
> 
> 
>     I guess it depends if you think the underscore is needed to improve
>     readability. "Function names should be lowercase, with words
>     separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability."
> 
>     I don't feel strongly enough about it to change it, but part of that
>     is because I'm burned out on the PEP, so I might not be a good one
>     to judge at this point. I guess if I clear my head and I were doing
>     it from scratch again I'd make them as_dict and as_tuple, so maybe I
>     should brush aside inertia and make the change.
> 
> 
> The Python stdlib is incredibly inconsistent where it comes to inserting 
> underscores. I think in this case it matches `namedtuple._asdict()` and 
> that's good enough for me.

It also matches `attrs.asdict()`, which is what originally inspired it.

Eric.