A small question about PEP 8
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Mon Jul 8 07:46:42 EDT 2013
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:32:01 +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> (English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.)
>
> I'm a Python newbie and just started reading PEP 8. PEP says:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> |The closing brace/bracket/parenthesis on multi-line constructs may
> |either line up under the last item of the list, as in:
> |
> |my_list = [
> | 1, 2, 3,
> | 4, 5, 6,
> | ]
> |result = some_function_that_takes_arguments(
> | 'a', 'b', 'c',
> | 'd', 'e', 'f',
> | )
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I think the last item in my_list/result is 6/'f', respectively. So why
> doesn't the bracket/paren line up _under_ the last item? ISTM the code
> isn't consistent with the description.
I agree. I think it is just a mistake, and should say "under the FIRST
item of the list".
--
Steven
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