On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016, at 12:35, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Where in PEP 8 does it violate its own advice? That's a bug. (The PEP has many authors by now.)
As the PEP acknowledges, style is hard to agree over. It's even harder to change an agreement that has been documented (if not always followed consistently) for over 20 years.
My rationale for this rule is that ending a line in a binary operator is a clear hint to the reader that the line isn't finished. (If you think about it, a comma is a kind of binary operator, and you wouldn't move the comma to the start of the continuation line, would you? :-)
Well, yes, but "and" and "or" are English conjunctions in addition to being binary operators and, a line break is a natural break in reading and, something flows more naturally if you pause before conjunctions rather than after them or, am I completely wrong about that?
What I'm saying is, maybe there should be a separate rule for "and" and "or" in certain contexts, rather than a universal rule for all binary operators.
OK, do you want to moderate the discussion about that particular issue? If you can gather support from some of the usual suspects I'm not against being persuaded. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)