In article <87fx8bl74c....@benfinney.id.au>, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >Wells <we...@submute.net> writes: >> >> Is it... pythonic, then, to have these lines of tabs/spaces to support >> code collapsing? Is it proper, improper, or irrelevant? > >It's quite improper (though syntactically null, in Python) to have >trailing whitespace on lines. That includes blank lines.
Your parenthetical is not quite true, unfortunately. Trailing whitespace after a continuation backslash generates a SyntaxError. That's the main reason I loathe continuation lines. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
