PEP 8 and indentation of continuation lines

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:

> John Yeung <gallium.arsenide at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > So last week PEP 8 was updated to reflect this. All fine and good. I
> > happen to prefer this style myself. But there remains an example
> > further down (left over from earlier incarnations of PEP 8) which
> > might go against this:
> >
> > if (width == 0 and height == 0 and
> >     color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or
> >     highlight > 100):
> >     raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
> >
> > The above satisfies the "opening paren" alignment, but due to the
> > length of the keyword, the suite is obscured.  For this example,
> > should PEP 8 use the double-indentation for the continuation lines?
>
> I wrote some code just today that needs the above issue addressed. I
> did it like this::

The formatting was messed up. Since the whitespace is the whole point
here, this is what I intended to send::

    if (
            width == 0 and height == 0 and
            color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or
            highlight > 100):
        raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")

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