K Viltersten wrote: > I've been recommended reading of: > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ > and in there i saw two things that i need to get elaborated. > > > 1. When writing English, Strunk and White apply. > > Where can i download it? Am i actually > expected to read the whole book?
It's a short book, and worth your time. Searching does turn up free downloads, but I recommend the illustrated version (of which I own a copy). http://www.libraryshop.org/elofstilbywi.html > How many people actually do aply it? The problem is how many people don't. > 2. You should use two spaces after a sentence-ending period. > > For heavens sake, why? I've always been obstructed by the double blanks > but tolerated them. Now, that i read that > it actually is a recommendation, i need to ask about the purpose. (a) It makes the ends of sentences more visually obvious. (b) It makes text easier to parse reliably from scripts. (c) Some text-editors can navigate such sentences out of the box, whereas others cannot. (I recall this limitation with Emacs' text-editing major mode, though it may have been fixed since then; I switched to Vim about five years ago.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
