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[Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sat Apr 26 03:53:44 CEST 2014 
On 04/25/2014 05:42 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2014, at 7:20 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:
>> On 04/25/2014 03:26 PM, Donald Stufft wrote:
>>>
>>> pep8.py doesn’t violate PEP8, it just takes a stricter view of it.
>>
>> If pep8 reports errors on things that PEP 8 says are okay, that's a violation.
>
> Being stricter is not a violation, it’s being stricter.

Then it should be called stricterThanPep8.  ;)

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on this point.  A tool that implements PEP 8 [1], but tells me that 
something PEP 8 allows is an error -- well, that's not PEP 8 then, is it?

At any rate, this part of the thread is pretty off-topic, so this is my last post about it.

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~Ethan~


[1] Yes, I checked the site for pep8, and saw the escape clause of "some of the style conventions" -- the problem is the 
cognitive dissonance between the name of the tool and the actions of the tool.
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