Code formatting question: conditional expression
John Posner
jjposner at optimum.net
Tue Aug 18 10:04:36 EDT 2009
While refactoring some code, I ran across an opportunity to use a
conditional expression. Original:
if total > P.BASE:
excessblk = Block(total - P.BASE, srccol, carry_button_suppress=True)
else:
excessblk = None
Is there any consensus on how to format a conditional expression that is
too long for one line? How about this:
excessblk = (Block(total - P.BASE, srccol, carry_button_suppress=True)
if total > P.BASE else
None)
The above format separates the values from the if-then-else machinery.
Too many lines? Would it be better to line up "if" and "else"
vertically? ...
excessblk = (Block(total - P.BASE, srccol, carry_button_suppress=True)
if total > P.BASE
else None)
PEP 308 is silent on this topic.
-John
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