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by nine_k 2806 days ago
PEP-8, to quote it [1], says in its first sentence:

> This document gives coding conventions for the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python distribution.

If you are not writing Python's stdlib, you are free to not to stick to it.

If in doubt, the next section of the document is helpfully titled "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds".

[1]: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/