On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:34:20 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> wrote: >> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:44:30 -0400, Random832 wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016, at 16:21, Ben Finney wrote: >>>> * Oh, come on, no-one would use U+000C FORM FEED in source code. >>> >>> Some text editors have shortcuts to navigate to the previous/next line >>> that begins with a form feed. >> >> Add these to the list of myths: >> >> * All producers use the same tools to produce code. >> * All consumers use the same tools to consume code. >> * All entities that produce and consume code use the same tools. >> * All entities use the same tools to consume code that they do to produce it. > > Those are definitely myths, but are they sufficiently connected to PEP 8? > > ChrisA
PEP8 is all about readability, and we all read source code through one tool and/or another. Anecdotally, a lot of readability arguments (including that one about some text editors treating U+000C as a special case) end up being as much about the tools we use as they are about the source code itself. We (this mailing list, or maybe it was the python-ideas mailing list) just had a thread about non-ASCII characters in identifiers. One of the main argument against is the confusables (A vs Α vs А). Sufficient tooling, however, could render (pun intended) that argument moot. Not too long ago, one of the main arguments against was that not everyone's tools could even render Α or А. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
