On 07/08/2013 03:39 AM, Joshua Landau wrote:
On 8 July 2013 00:32, Xue Fuqiao <xfq.f...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
(English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.)
I'm a Python newbie and just started reading PEP 8. PEP says:
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|The closing brace/bracket/parenthesis on multi-line constructs may
|either line up under the last item of the list, as in:
|
|my_list = [
| 1, 2, 3,
| 4, 5, 6,
| ]
|result = some_function_that_takes_arguments(
| 'a', 'b', 'c',
| 'd', 'e', 'f',
| )
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I think the last item in my_list/result is 6/'f', respectively. So why
doesn't the bracket/paren line up _under_ the last item? ISTM the code
isn't consistent with the description.
I have searched the archive of c.l.p and the web, but nothing helped.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
You will grow to be a wonderful pedant. What it means is that the
indentation will match the last one. Imagine:
"""
a_wonderful_set_of_things = {
bannanas_made_of_apples,
chocolate_covered_horns,
doors_that_slide,
china_but_on_the_moon,
buffalo_with_windy_hair,
not_missing_an_end_brace
"""ยน
Now, there are several places you can put the end brace. You can (be a
massive fool and) put it after the last item:
"""
a_wonderful_set_of_things = {
...,
not_missing_an_end_brace}
"""
You can also (be a fool and) put it at the same *indentation*:
"""
a_wonderful_set_of_things = {
...,
not_missing_an_end_brace
}
"""
Not only a fool but a crazy fool! That next-to-last line should have a comma!
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