[Python-ideas] with statement syntax forces ugly line breaks?

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Wed Sep 8 15:30:34 EDT 2010


On 08/09/2010 19:07, Georg Brandl wrote:
> Thus spake the Lord: Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no
> less. Four shall be the number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the
> number of thy indenting shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent,
> nor either indent thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to four.
> Tabs are right out.
>
FYI, that should be "thine indenting".

"My/thy" before a consonant, "mine/thine" before a vowel. Compare with
"a/an", which we still do.



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