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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: (Still OT) Nationalism, language and monoculture [was Re: Python Worst Practices]
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> You want to
> use "colour" instead of "color"? Also not a problem, and should be
> easy enough for someone to understand who normally spells it the other
> way.

It's not a matter of failing to understand, it's about
having more than one spelling of an identifier around
imposing an extra cognitive burden.

PEP 8 recommends against abbreviating identifiers because
it's hard to remember which abbreviation is being used
in any given context. Multiple alternative spellings
have a similar effect.

-- 
Greg