[Python-Dev] PEP 7 clarification request: braces

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jan 02, 2012, at 02:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

>The irony is that style guides exist to *avoid* debates like this. Yes, the
>choices are arbitrary. Yes, tastes differ. Yes, there are exceptions to the
>rules. But still, once a style rule has been set, the idea is to stop
>debating and just code.

+1

The other reason why style guides exist is to give contributors some sense of
what they should shoot for.  I've worked on existing code bases where there's
so little consistency I can't tell what the author's preferences are even if I
wanted to adhere to them.

-Barry