[Python-Dev] PEP 8 recommends short module names because FAT is still common today

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Tue Oct 20 23:54:07 EDT 2015

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Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

> […] I've removed the offending paragraph from the PEP. Note that it
> still recommends short, all-lowercase module and package names -- it
> just doesn't use computers to motivate it.

That suits me too. I think the justification was valid, but its absence
doesn't harm the PEP.

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