topic Re: PEP 8 style guide in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pep-8-style-guide/m-p/224227#M17318 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I presume this is in reference to the capitalization scheme of the arcpy APIs. In this regard, no. It would break all existing scripts. The scheme, while not PEP-8 compliant, acts as a bridge between the naming and capitalization scheme of older scripting APIs such as the old Dispatch object.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The rules are as follows:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><UL><BR /><LI>All top-level functions and classes are CapitalizedLikeThis</LI><BR /><LI>All class methods and properties are capitalizedLikeThis</LI><BR /><LI>Constants are PRESENTED_AS_ALL_CAPS_STRINGS</LI><BR /></UL><BR /><SPAN>As a long-time Python developer I appreciate the desire to follow PEP 8, but as the ArcGIS system is quite a bit larger and encompassing a lot more than just a single Python API, there are motivating factors that make more sense with a bit of compromise with regard to the rest of the stack. It has its own style guide that may not match 1:1 with PEP 8, but it does make sense in ArcGIS and arcpy is internally consistent in its naming.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 13 May 2012 08:58:24 GMT JasonScheirer 2012-05-13T08:58:24Z PEP 8 style guide https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pep-8-style-guide/m-p/224226#M17317 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I've been asking for criticism on my arcpy scripts by experienced Python programmers, and they all say arcpy needs to adhere to </SPAN><A href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/">the PEP 8 style guide</A><SPAN>. Is this likely to happen anytime soon?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sat, 12 May 2012 06:27:49 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pep-8-style-guide/m-p/224226#M17317 DwayneHenderson 2012-05-12T06:27:49Z Re: PEP 8 style guide https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pep-8-style-guide/m-p/224227#M17318 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I presume this is in reference to the capitalization scheme of the arcpy APIs. In this regard, no. It would break all existing scripts. The scheme, while not PEP-8 compliant, acts as a bridge between the naming and capitalization scheme of older scripting APIs such as the old Dispatch object.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The rules are as follows:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><UL><BR /><LI>All top-level functions and classes are CapitalizedLikeThis</LI><BR /><LI>All class methods and properties are capitalizedLikeThis</LI><BR /><LI>Constants are PRESENTED_AS_ALL_CAPS_STRINGS</LI><BR /></UL><BR /><SPAN>As a long-time Python developer I appreciate the desire to follow PEP 8, but as the ArcGIS system is quite a bit larger and encompassing a lot more than just a single Python API, there are motivating factors that make more sense with a bit of compromise with regard to the rest of the stack. It has its own style guide that may not match 1:1 with PEP 8, but it does make sense in ArcGIS and arcpy is internally consistent in its naming.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 13 May 2012 08:58:24 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/pep-8-style-guide/m-p/224227#M17318 JasonScheirer 2012-05-13T08:58:24Z