Continuing indentation
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Mar 2 16:29:27 EST 2016
Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro at gmail.com> writes:
> Running flake8 over some code which has if statements with multiple
> conditions like this:
>
> if (some_condition and
> some_other_condition and
> some_final_condition):
> play_bingo()
>
> the tool complains that the indentation of the conditions is the same
> as the next block.
For this reason I prefer to indent all continuation lines 8 spaces::
if (
some_condition and
some_other_condition and
some_final_condition):
play_bingo()
> I use GNU Emacs as my text editor, and its python mode. I'm pretty
> happy with everything (been using it in its current state for several
> years). Aside from manually or configure-ologically suppressing E129,
> is there a better way to break lines I'm missing which will make
> flake8 happy?
The style I recommend above is PEP 8 compliant, easy to read, remember,
and apply.
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