PEP8 compliance and exception messages ?

[shearichard]

On Dec 6, 6:21 pm, Ben Finney <ben+pyt... at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> shearichard <shearich... at gmail.com> writes:
> > Hi - PEP8 says lines should not exceed 79 characters in length
> > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/).
>
> > So if you've got some code that looks like this :
>
> > raise fooMod.fooException("Some message which is quite long")
>
> PEP 8 also says those names are poorly chosen. Better:
>
>     raise foomod.FooException("Some message which is quite long")
>
> > raise fooMod.fooException("\
> >         Some message \
> >         which is quite long")
>
> Take advantage of the parsing of string literals and parenthesis:
>
>     raise foomod.FooException(
>         "Some message"
>         " which is quite long")
>
> and for the sake of my eyes, avoid camelCase.

OK you got me ! Thanks for pointing this out, I will take a look at
the relevant section