Guido, In that case would you be open to a patch to update the PEP accordingly?
Additionally, does that official statement cover other dunder assignments (e.g. "__author__"?). If so I'll update the PEP8 tool accordingly. Thanks, ~ Ian Lee On Mar 20, 2015 8:55 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@python.org> wrote: > FWIW, I think __version__, __author__ etc. were bad ideas. Almost nobody > manages these correctly. Note that the PEP 8 section starts with less than > an endorsement: "If you *have* to have Subversion, CVS, or RCS crud in > your source file, do it as follows." > > That said, if an official answer is required, common sense would suggest > that __version__ should go before the imports. (I would put it before the > docstring too, except then the docstring wouldn't be a docstring any more. > Go figure.) > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote: > >> Lewis Coates <lew...@pdx.edu> writes: >> >> > In pep8 there are two conflicting statements, both >> > >> > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#version-bookkeeping >> > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#imports >> > >> > Stipulate that they should be "at the top of the file after any module >> > comments and docstrings." Which of these takes precedence? >> >> I don't know an official answer. The convention I've observed is >> overwhelmingly in one direction: import statements come before any >> assignment statements. >> >> > Secondly, we also have an "__author__", and "__project__" variables, I >> > assume these would be put with the version information as well? >> >> Yes. >> >> -- >> \ “Welchen Teil von ‘Gestalt’ verstehen Sie nicht? [What part of | >> `\ ‘gestalt’ don't you understand?]” —Karsten M. Self | >> _o__) | >> Ben Finney >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ianlee1521%40gmail.com > >
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