[Biopython-dev] PEP8 lower case module names?

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Mon Oct 29 08:15:59 UTC 2012


On Sunday, October 28, 2012, Brad Chapman wrote:

>
> Peter and all;
> Interesting discussion on the module path issues. I'm agreed with
> everyone that it would be nice to be pep8 compliant. However, my vote
> would be to stick with our traditional namespace to avoid widespread
> breakage. The changes everyone is proposing are nice, but not nice
> enough to deal with introducing an incompatible version and the
> documentation and help fallout from that.
>
> If everyone wants to go down the module name path, it would be worth
> investing in a biopython1to2 script that automatically handles the
> renamings for folks.
>
> Just my 2 cents,
> Brad
>

Hi Brad,

In the case of Bow's SearchIO code, what would you prefer?
e.g. Bio.SearchIO as it is now on his branch?

Peter



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