On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: >> >> Is this just intended to discourage subclassing? If so, why give the >> misleading impression that these things can be subclassed by naming them >> as if they were classes? >> >> How should this be handled when it comes to the addition of PEP 8 >> compliant aliases? > > I don't see a problem for trivial functional wrappers to classes to be > capitalized like classes. So I'd suggest option 3: leave it as-is. Otherwise > option 2 (replace the wrappers with the actual classes) has my preference. Yes, I believe that pretending that functions are classes is a fairly common idiom in the stdlib and out, so I see no problem leaving them alone. We haven't had any complaints about the threading Event function yet either. :) -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1."
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