That’s it. I simply can’t stand them, they drive me crazy. When I first saw them I wondered what the fuck “ib” meant. And the thing is, I’d expect every decent python programmer to have the same reaction: . is syntax; it simply can’t be part of a name. The library is called “attrs”, so why is it imported as “attr”? I simply don’t know what the author thought he was doing.
I just don’t see how it is appropriate for a serious library to contain a joke that’s going to trip up literally every programmer with any taste. Maybe this is my problem, maybe one day I’ll relax and wonder why I was making such a big deal about it. But for the last several years it has made me think that the author completely lacks the judgement required to be a library author.
To add to my criticisms, imagine what the python ecosystem would look like if everyone thought they could have names that spanned attribute lookup syntax!