[maemo-developers] Asking for developers and user support for a N900 application

[From: Thomas Perl]

2009/9/28 Joaquim Rocha <jrocha at igalia.com>:
> Andrea Grandi wrote:
>> from HTMLParser import HTMLParser <--- package name in upper case...
>> urllib2.Request(url, data) <---- method name in upper case...
>>
>> first they suggest name convention and then they're the first one not
>> following them? This really sucks :)
>
>> Request is an object (a class), it is not a method :)

They can't just change the naming for the standard library, as this
would (obviously) break old code. Most likely these libraries have been
around longer than PEP-8 has ;) I feel a bit bad about this, too, but
at least it has been fixed in Python 3000 (as the API break allows for
such changes):

http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html#library-changes

In Python 3.x, the HTMLParser module has been renamed to html.parser:

http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/html.parser.html

Thomas