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authorKristian Glass <git@doismellburning.co.uk>2015-11-08 16:41:34 +0000
committerKristian Glass <git@doismellburning.co.uk>2015-11-08 17:01:30 +0000
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parent993e80c2bbb92268ae52bb20bbf8e6f6b048a1d0 (diff)
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Added recommendation against ast usage in pep8
Based on https://github.com/PyCQA/pep8/pull/431#issuecomment-134706116
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@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ Direction
Some high-level aims and directions to bear in mind for contributions:
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+* ``pep8`` is intended to be as fast as possible.
+ Using the ``ast`` module defeats that purpose.
+ The `pep8-naming <https://github.com/flintwork/pep8-naming>`_ plugin exists for this sort of functionality.
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