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Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 21:35:54 -0400
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Paul McGuire wrote:
[...].
>
> I guess pyparsing with its mixedCase functions and attributes is
> doomed for the Dunce Corner. Too bad for BeautifulSoup, cElementTree,
> and wxPython that are also at variance with this canon of Python
> coding style. ("Modules should have short, all-lowercase names. ...
> Python packages should also have short, all-lowercase names, although
> the use of underscores is discouraged.")
>
Although the names in wxPython are indeed contrary to PEP 8 (because
they are the same as the names used in wxWidgets) I should point out
that nowadays the name you import is "wx".
regards
Steve
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