PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace

[Thomas Jollans]

On 21/07/11 19:51, Andrew Berg wrote:
> Looks nice all lined up, but it violates PEP 8 because of those extra
> spaces, which is only because extra spaces look bad in one-line
> assignments that have nothing to do with lists/tuples or dictionaries.
> This is one of those times not to follow PEP 8 to the letter, but it
> does trip up checker programs (which are useful for catching silly
> things like an extra space at the end of a line or missing spaces around
> operators). Thoughts?
> 

Read the PEP properly. Specifically this bit:


>    -  More than one space around an assignment (or other) operator to
>       align it with another.
> 
>       Yes:
> 
>           x = 1
>           y = 2
>           long_variable = 3
> 
>       No:
> 
>           x             = 1
>           y             = 2
>           long_variable = 3


So, the PEP says: do not align operators. End of story.