[Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

[Chris Withers]

On 25/04/2014 04:03, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2014, at 12:00 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> Don't forget that PEP 8 is not the standard for the Python language,
>> only the Python stdlib. Particularly, there's no strong reason to
>> follow some of its lesser advices (eg spaces rather than tabs, the
>> exact maximum line length) for new projects;
>
> I'd say it depends.  If the code is going to be shared with people outside of
> your organization (e.g. open source libraries), then there's a strong
> motivation to be consistent throughout the community, which means PEP 8.

Right, so for me this means even in a private code base, there are big 
benefits to using PEP 8; everything looks the same, whether it's a third 
party library, python core or your own code...

Chris

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