On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > A definitive Python source file could be binary, XML, .py, .ast, > whatever, and that would also be the file fed to the Python > compiler/interpreter. However, your editor could choose freely how to > present it to you. > > IOW, shouldn't PEP8 be redundant?
I believe the Python interpreter happily accepts a zip file, which in theory could be edited directly by a competent text editor. But that has nothing to do with PEP 8. Compare a classic compiled language like C - you have the bit you edit (the C source code) and the "definitive version" that's fed to the program loader (the compiled binary). Style guides apply to the edited version, not to the executed version. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
