Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> > wrote: >> In terms of easier to read, I find code easier to read when the >> operators are at the beginnings of the lines (PEP 8 notwithstanding): >> >> x = (someobject.somemethod(object3, thing) >> + longfunctionname(object2) >> + otherfunction(value1, value2, value3)) >> > > Without the parentheses, this is legal but (probably) useless; it > applies the unary + operator to the return value of those functions.
No, in some other languages it might be legal, but this is Python. without the parentheses it is a syntax error. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
