PEP eight has an interesting omission in the "Code Layout" section. It doesn't say how to indent continuation lines when code is wrapped to comply with the line length limits. It has examples, but no textual guides. Which means you can do a rock-stupid word warp (with no indentation on the continuation lines), point at the resulting mess, and say "See? If we follow this part of the PEP, we get really ugly code!". Mail doing just that is what prompted this suggestion. I therefore propose adding a sentence or two to this section, something along the lines of: The continuation line(s) should be indented to reflect the structure of the statement being continued. This should be at least one space beyond the first open parenthesis that is not closed on the continued line, if present. Nothing hard and fast, just a requirement to use good sense and the minimal indent resulting from doing so. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org