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Why doesn Twisted follow PEP 8?

April 26, 2017Follow PEP twisted

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Why doesn Twisted follow PEP 8?

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Twisted does follow much of PEP 8 (as is documented in the Twisted coding standard. However, Twisted prefers !camelCase for variables, functions, and methods (whereas PEP 8 recommends underscores) because Twisted predates PEP 8 and converting the entire codebase now is infeasible. Twisted continues to use its existing naming convention for new APIs to retain consistency within the project (according to PEP 8’s recommendation).