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Is Google App Engine Python non-Pythonic?

• It seems like lots of the Google App Engine code and examples doesn't follow PEP8 and and have a tendency to lean towards a more "unpythonic"(?) use of classes, camelcase etc. Example: - https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/localunittesting It this in fact "non-Pythonic"? Is it on purpose?

• Answer:

  I would say it's only "un-Pythonic" in not following PEP8 style. The original Google Python Style Guide did not follow PEP8. Some of the App Engine samples continue to use the original Google Python Style Guide, which is more similar to the style guide found here: https://code.google.com/p/soc/wiki/PythonStyleGuide To answer your question "is it on purpose" – any non-PEP8 code you see from Google is most likely only non-PEP8 so that it can be consistent with other Google-authored code that also does not follow PEP8. If you take a look at the code in the App Engine SDK, you (used to) be able to find many aliases for functions between PEP8 names and non-PEP8 names.