According to PEP8 modules should be lowercase. Some popular ones out there (e.g. Gtk) however follow the CamelCase convention. In order to have a pythonic codebase and mitigate spillage of this policy breach it seems like the following is a clean way to deal with this: import CamelcasedModule as camelcased_module Linters such as pep8-naming however claim that such practice violates PEP8 and throw an N813 error. As I failed to find any direct passage in PEP8 addressing this I was wondering which way to go in order to stay true to the zen of python. Sitenote: Previously this question mentioned Gtk as an example: from gi.repository import Gtk as gtk Which was misleading as Gtk is a class not a module and as such does not apply to the question. For transparency and because the answers to this may still be usefull it is mentioned here. Continue reading...
