On Sep 27, 2017, at 12:50 AM, Bill <bill_nos...@whoknows.net> wrote: > > Ever since I download the MyCharm IDE a few days ago, I've been noticing all > sort of "spacing conventions (from PEP) that are suggested. How do folks > regard these in general? > > For instance, the conventions suggest that > > if x>y : > pass > > should be written > if x > y: > pass > > Personally, I like seeing a space before the colon (:). And then in > > my_list = [ i for i in range(0, 10) ] > it complains about my extra space inside of the brackets. > > If you are teaching beginning students, do you expect them to try to follow > these sorts of conventions? Is it perfectly fine to let "taste" guide you > (I'm just trying to get a feel for the philosophy here)? I also notice > "break" and exception handling is used much more in Python than in C++, for > instance. I was taught "break" and "continue" led to "unstructured > code"--but that was a while back. I can still see their use causing > potential trouble in (really-long) real-world code. > > Bill > > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I came across a Python script on Github that did what I needed except for some trivial modifications to make it Python 3 compatible. I did consider contributing changes to make the script Python 2 and 3 compatible. However, the script was written an idiosyncratic, anti-PEP8 style that was hard to match and the author previously rejected all Python 3 contributions. Forking the script to make it Python 2/3 compatible *and* PEP8 compliant would require too much effort on my part, especially since I needed to use the script only once. Chris R. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
