[Tutor] Correct style of line break when chaining methods

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at gmail.com
Sat Jul 10 12:18:09 EDT 2021


On 10/07/2021 17:03, Manprit Singh wrote:
> Dear sir,
> 
> See in this particular example, the length of the line is 75 characters ,
> and according to PEP 8, in Python a line must not exceed 69 characters.
> So I divided this line .
> And Secondarily when doing work with Numpy arrays and Pandas we are mostly
> working with chained methods, and at that time, what i feel is a line break
> can increase readability also .
> Need further comments and guidance.
> 
> Regards
> Manprit Singh
> 

PEP 8 quite clearly states "This document gives coding conventions for 
the Python code comprising the standard library in the main Python 
distribution".  It also has a section titled "A Foolish Consistency is 
the Hobgoblin of Little Minds".  I'll leave you to draw your own 
conclusions :)

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Mark Lawrence



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