[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updated on whether to break before or after a binary update

Ian Lee ianlee1521 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 15 16:48:25 EDT 2016


Cross posting the comment I’d left on the issue [1].

> My preference is to actually break that logic up and avoid the wrapping in the first place, as in [2]. Which in this particular class has the side benefit of that value being used again in the same function anyways.

> I'm starting to realize that Brandon Rhodes really had a big impact on my ideas of styling as I've been learning Python these past few years, as this was another one style I'm stealing from that same talk [3].

[1] http://bugs.python.org/msg263509 <http://bugs.python.org/msg263509>
[2] https://github.com/python/peps/commit/0c790e7b721bd13ad12ab9e6f6206836f398f9c4

~ Ian Lee | IanLee1521 at gmail.com <mailto:IanLee1521 at gmail.com>
> On Apr 15, 2016, at 10:49, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2016-04-15 18:03, Victor Stinner wrote:
> > Hum.
> >
> >          if (width == 0
> >              and height == 0
> >              and color == 'red'
> >              and emphasis == 'strong'
> >              or highlight > 100):
> >              raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
> >
> > Please remove one space to vertically align "and" operators with the
> > opening parenthesis:
> >
> >          if (width == 0
> >             and height == 0
> >             and color == 'red'
> >             and emphasis == 'strong'
> >             or highlight > 100):
> >              raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
> >
> > (I'm not sure that the difference is obvious in a mail client, you
> > need a fixed width font which is not the case in my Gmail editor.)
> >
> > It helps to visually see that the multiline test and the raise
> > instruction are in two different blocks.
> >
> > (Moreover, the pep8 checks of OpenStack simply reject such syntax, but
> > I cannot use this syntax anymore :-))
> >
> I always half-indent continuation lines:
> 
>        if (width == 0
>          and height == 0
>          and color == 'red'
>          and emphasis == 'strong'
>          or highlight > 100):
>            raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
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