This is nothing major, but I guess every bit helps. Under the "Using Backslash to Continue Statements" section of http://docs.python.org/2/howto/doanddont.html (also in the Python 3 docs), the last two code samples: value = foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] \ + calculate_number(10, 20)*forbulate(500, 360) and value = (foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] + calculate_number(10, 20)*forbulate(500, 360)) have the operator after the line break instead of before, like: value = (foo.bar()['first'][0]*baz.quux(1, 2)[5:9] + calculate_number(10, 20)*forbulate(500, 360)) It would be good if these code samples could be changed to have the operator before the line break in order to conform with PEP8 ("The preferred place to break around a binary operator is after the operator, not before it.") and the rest of the documentation. Thanks!