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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-07 14:41:31 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-02-07 14:41:31 -0800 |
| commit | 41e81d2fb9642f0f3b9b7a278a1afab0e43f5207 (patch) | |
| tree | 43a8adb382a7ba3ebd35be8ae9658945a724140b /Documentation/CodingGuidelines | |
| parent | Merge branch 'ab/gitweb-use-same-scheme' (diff) | |
| parent | CodingGuidelines: add Python coding guidelines (diff) | |
| download | tgif-41e81d2fb9642f0f3b9b7a278a1afab0e43f5207.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jk/python-styles'
* jk/python-styles:
CodingGuidelines: add Python coding guidelines
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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines index 1d7de5f985..9eb2d9fe7e 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines +++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines @@ -179,6 +179,20 @@ For C programs: - Use Git's gettext wrappers to make the user interface translatable. See "Marking strings for translation" in po/README. +For Python scripts: + + - We follow PEP-8 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/). + + - As a minimum, we aim to be compatible with Python 2.6 and 2.7. + + - Where required libraries do not restrict us to Python 2, we try to + also be compatible with Python 3.1 and later. + + - When you must differentiate between Unicode literals and byte string + literals, it is OK to use the 'b' prefix. Even though the Python + documentation for version 2.6 does not mention this prefix, it has + been supported since version 2.6.0. + Writing Documentation: Every user-visible change should be reflected in the documentation. |