Code formatting question: conditional expression

[Aahz]

In article <87ocqchl2k.fsf at benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney  <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:
>>
>> excessblk = None
>> if total > P.BASE:
>>     excessblk = ...
>>
>> You don't lose any vertical space,
>
>I don't see vertical space as such a scarce resource; we don't have an
>imminent newline shortage, to my knowledge. I value it far lower than,
>say, local readability.

We don't have a newline shortage, but we do have a pixel shortage.
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