Mike Meyer wrote:
I think that specifying exactly how to indent continuation lines, or even whether or not to indent them, is way too controlling for my tastes. I don't believe it makes that much difference. Like the brace wars, if there actually was any objective, meaningful, consistent benefit of one style over the others, there would be no argument about it. Instead, it's all subjective, vague, and far from consistent.
If you don't believe it makes much different "whether or not to indent them", I suggest you align all continuation lines on the left hand side of the page in code you have to maintain and then report back to us.
In general, that would be an *outdent*, rather than not indenting. As a matter of fact, there is at least one situation where I don't indent continuation lines: if condition: do_something("some long piece of text, most likely" " but not always an error message, which uses implicit" " concatenation over multiple lines blah blah blah blah" % spam) # and it's perfectly maintainable, thanks for asking. The fact that I have bare strings (with a leading space) and/or a binary operator is more than enough clue that the lines form a block. Indenting would be superfluous, and counter-productive, as it would reduce the space available on each line. -- Steven