On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:52 +0000, Peter Billam wrote: > I wonder on what grounds PEP8 > says "The preferred place to break around a binary operator is > *after* the operator" ? > Perhaps it's just the "continutation marker" rationale? > > Regards, Peter > > -- > Peter Billam www.pjb.com.au www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html
If the lines got separated, a leading + could disappear into its line without any errors showing up. A trailing + would raise a syntax error. >>> spam = 6 >>> spam + File "<stdin>", line 1 spam + ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> + spam 6 >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list