On May 27, 1:57 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com>
wrote:
> HH wrote:
> > I have a question about best practices when it comes to line wrapping/
> > continuation and indentation, specifically in the case of an if
> > statement.
>
> > When I write an if statement with many conditions, I prefer to use a
> > parenthesis around the whole block and get the implicit continuation,
> > rather than ending each line with an escape character. Thus, using
> > the example from the style guide (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/
> > pep-0008/) I would write:
>
> > if (width == 0 and
> > height == 0 and
> > color == 'red' and
> > emphasis == 'strong' or
> > highlight > 100):
> > raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
>
> > The problem should be obvious -- it's not easy to see where the
> > conditional ends and the statement begins since they have the same
> > indentation. Part of the problem, I suppose, is that Emacs indents
> > 'height' and the other lines in the conditional to 4 spaces (because
> > of the parenthesis). How do people deal with this situation?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Henrik
>
> One possible solution
>
> if (
> width == 0 and
> height == 0 and
> color == 'red' and
> emphasis == 'strong' or
> highlight > 100
> ):
> raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
>
> JM
I've always liked this, or even:
if (
width == 0 and
height == 0 and
color == 'red' and
emphasis == 'strong' or
highlight > 100
):
raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
but my co-workers have uniformly gone bananas whenever I try it.
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