On 11/8/2010 8:50 AM, Neil Cerutti wrote: [...] > Interesting. I find conserving vertical space to be a big win. I > understand why you'd enforce braces for virtually all code bodies > in C. In C, I'm giving up the most obvious form of expression for > something obviously more robust. In Python, there's no such > trade-off. Forbidding one-line conditional statements in Python > would sacrifice succinctness for nothing.
One-line conditional statements aren't "forbidden" or they would not be grammatically correct. Many stylists (and the PEP 8 style guide) eschew the single-line form as less readable because the guarded suites (in this case, simple statements) are not flagged as clearly by indentation or a trailing colon, and are therefore more likely to be missed by the casual reader. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 PyCon 2011 Atlanta March 9-17 http://us.pycon.org/ See Python Video! http://python.mirocommunity.org/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
