[Python-Dev] PEP 7 clarification request: braces

[Ethan Furman]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Matt Joiner writes:
> 
>  > Readability is the highest concern, and this should be at the
>  > discretion of the contributor.
> 
> That's quite backwards.  "Readability" is community property, and has
> as much, if not more, to do with common convention as with some
> absolute metric.  The "contributor's discretion" must yield.

Readability also includes more than just the source code; as has already 
been stated:

  if(cond) {
    stmt1;
+  stmt2;
  }

vs.

-if(cond)
+if(cond) {
    stmt1;
+  stmt2;
+}

I find the diff version that already had braces in place much more readable.

~Ethan~