[Python-ideas] PEP8 dictionary indenting addition

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/12/2016 1:40 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano writes:
>
>  > I learned the hard way that if I don't put the breaking space at
>  > the beginning of the next fragment, I probably wouldn't put it at
>  > the end of the previous fragment either.
>
> The converse applies in my case, so that actually doesn't matter to
> me.  When I don't put it in, I don't put it in anywhere.
>
> What does matter to me is that I rarely make spelling errors
> (including typos) or omit internal spaces.  That means I can get away
> with not reading strings carefully most of the time, and I don't.  But
> omitted space at the joins of a continued string is frequent, and
> frequently caught when I'm following skimming down a suite to the next
> syntactic construct.  But spaces at end never will be.
>
> Ie, space-at-beginning makes for more effective review for me.  YMMV.

I think that PEP 8 should not recommend either way.

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Terry Jan Reedy