On 27/08/11 09:08:20, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
I'm wondering what advice you have about formatting if statements with
long conditions (I always format my code to<80 colums)
Here's an example taken from something I'm writing at the moment and
how I've formatted it:
if (isinstance(left, PyCompare) and isinstance(right, PyCompare)
and left.complist[-1] is right.complist[0]):
py_and = PyCompare(left.complist + right.complist[1:])
else:
py_and = PyBooleanAnd(left, right)
What would you do?
I would break after the '(' and indent the condition once and
put the '):' bit on a separate line, aligned with the 'if':
if (
isinstance(left, PyCompare)
and isinstance(right, PyCompare)
and left.complist[-1] is right.complist[0]
):
py_and = PyCompare(left.complist + right.complist[1:])
else:
py_and = PyBooleanAnd(left, right)
It may look ugly, but it's very clear where the condition part ends
and the 'then' part begins.
-- HansM
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