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Subject:    [Python-ideas] Re: [Python-Dev] Adding pep-8-casing-compliant aliases for unittest and logging
From:       Christopher Barker <pythonchb () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-11-12 5:35:51
Message-ID: CALn7ch982jsP39s1neDQ4LGukz6F7G2qC9OKLG9EFsRF+3=KzA () mail ! gmail ! com
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> > So perhaps we could narrow the scope of this down to just adding
> snake_case aliases to the logging and
> > unittest modules [...]


The reason those are spelled that way is because they are ported from Java.

And IMHO that "Java flavor" is a bigger issue than just the names. It's the
whole structure. So if we're going to touch those, let's make a Pythonic
API, with PEP 8 compliant names, instead :-)

-CHB


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