[Python-ideas] Suggestion for Style Guide for Python Code PEP 8

[Georg Brandl]

On 14.05.2011 06:50, Rahul Amaram wrote:
> Thanks for the reply George and Weeble. It would nice if these kind of 
> minor programming guidelines are also included in some page probably 
> titled "Extended Python Guidelines" :). The reason being novice 
> programmers in python who have worked in previous languages tend to use 
> the same style of coding as in other languages. So, for instance, to 
> check for the existence of a key in a dictionary, it is extremely likely 
> that they'd either look for a has_key method or get a list of all the 
> keys and search in it. Anyway, as you said, there might a lot of such 
> small idioms in python, which may not make sense to cover in PEP 8 but 
> if they are really the recommended way of doing the operation, then we 
> probably should have them documented in one place.

I'd hope that simple things like "k in d" are already in every tutorial
on Python that's worth anything...

Georg