[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Dec 15 12:05:54 CET 2005


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> You *might* want
> to separate classes with two blank lines if the methods within them
> are separated by single blank lines, but even there it's probably
> overkill.

Lately I've taken to putting a separator like this
between consecutive class definitions of any substantial
size:

#-------------------------------------------------------

I find it helps a lot when I'm skimming through looking
for the beginnings of classes.

Not suggesting this should go in PEP 8, though!

Greg


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