Discussion of Coding-Style
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Participants
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- Dumitru
- Fred
- David
- Olivier D [leader]

Existing Python coding style specifications and guidelines
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    * http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
    * http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html
    * http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/python_style_guide.shtml
    * http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html
    * http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/material/python/misc/python_style_guide.html
    * http://barry.warsaw.us/software/STYLEGUIDE.txt
    * http://self.maluke.com/style
    * http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/ChandlerCodingStyleGuidelines
    * http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/dev/2003-March/000479.html
    * http://learnpython.pbworks.com/PythonTricks
    * http://eikke.com/how-not-to-write-python-code/
    * http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonGuidelines.html
    * http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/internals/contributing/#coding-style

We will probably want to take PEP-8 as starting point, and read what other
people think about it / how other coding guidelines differ from it.

Dumi: we should also try to find tools that automate these
processes: pylint, pyflakes, pychecker, pythontidy

Documentation
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How do we write doc?

Compatibility with various Python versions
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    * Which Python 2.x version do we want to support?

    * Is it reasonable to have coding guidelines that would make the code as
compatible as possible with Python 3?

C coding style
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We also need a c-style coding style.

Meetings
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Next meeting: Thursday 2010/09/09, 11 am