[Baypiggies] padding variable assignments, why is it bad?

[Guido van Rossum]

Ironically, the reason became obvious when I read your message in gmail. It
was displayed in a variable-width font. :-)

On Friday, August 10, 2012, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:

> (Reading this email requires a monospaced font.)
>
> I do this a lot in my code:
>
>     foo          = 1
>     foo_bar      = 2
>     foo_bar_quux = 3
>
> but pep8, which I started using recently, considers this wrong, so I
> have to rewrite to the more common form:
>
>     foo = 1
>     foo_bar = 2
>     foo_bar_quux = 3
>
> which I think sacrifices readability. Perhaps this is the n00b in me
> talking, but why is this considered bad?
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