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</head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Imagine your have some
code like this<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.name = encode(src.get('name'),
'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.description =
encode(src.get('description'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.enabled =
encode(src.get('enabled'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.last_access =
encode(src.get('last_access'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<br>
This looks a mumbo jumbo lines of code.<br>
<br>
However by aligning them into columns, the pattern become immediately
obvious.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.name =
encode(src.get('name'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.description =
encode(src.get('description'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.enabled =
encode(src.get('enabled'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">row.last_access =
encode(src.get('last_access'), 'xmlref')</span><br style="font-family:
monospace;">
<br>
It is clear that the code is applying similar operation on 4 items. It
is a lot easier to tell which of the 4 elements and if you should
include more or less into the list. It is a huge visualization
improvement. PEP-8's suggestion on this is not a good one in my opinion.<br>
<br>
The down side is it takes some effort to keep it neat and tidy. Of
course I have editor macro that does that. I think every decent text
editor should have some function to help people to align things.<br>
<br>
Wai Yip<br>
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requires a monospaced font.)<br><br>I do this a lot in my code:<br><br>
foo = 1<br> foo_bar = 2<br> foo_bar_quux = 3<br><br>but
pep8, which I started using recently, considers this wrong, so I<br>have
to rewrite to the more common form:<br><br> foo = 1<br> foo_bar =
2<br> foo_bar_quux = 3<br><br>which I think sacrifices readability.
Perhaps this is the n00b in me<br>talking, but why is this considered
bad?<br>_______________________________________________<br>Baypiggies
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