A formatter bot would be quite complicated to introduce without disrupitions of everybody's workflow (remember that we have about half a million lines of C code in the Python repo). If you want to discuss that please start a new thread on python-dev.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:22 PM, francismb <francismb@email.de> wrote:
Hi Brett,

On 01/19/2016 12:20 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 at 11:10 Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:
>
>> While doing a review of http://bugs.python.org/review/26129/ I asked to
>> have curly braces put around all `if` statement bodies. Serhiy pointed out
>> that PEP 7 says curly braces are optional:
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/#id5. I would like to change
>> that.
>>
>> My argument is to require them to prevent bugs like the one Apple made
>> with OpenSSL about two years ago:
>> https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html. Skipping the
>> curly braces is purely an aesthetic thing while leaving them out can lead
>> to actual bugs.
>>
>> Anyone object if I update PEP 7 to remove the optionality of curly braces
>> in PEP 7?
>>
>

What about about a code formatter bot ? (new workflow). If one just
could agree, then those reviews should just disappear (?).

Regards,
francis



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