[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Jurczak
Paul Jurczak added the comment: I admit, it is somewhat silly, but not entirely silly. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-13 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
Barry A. Warsaw added the comment: It's not *particularly* silly[1], but I think that with Government backing, he could make it very silly. [1] I mean, the right hand side isn't silly at all and the left hand side merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternative assignment. --

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-13 Thread Barry A. Warsaw
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[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-13 Thread Guido van Rossum
Guido van Rossum added the comment: This is a silly argument. -- resolution: -> invalid status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-13 Thread Antoine Pitrou
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[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Jurczak
Paul Jurczak added the comment: Correct, it is in mixed prose and code. However, the underlying principle in this PEP is: "guidelines provided here are intended to improve the readability of code". The author used vertical alignment (for mixed prose and code), because of its superior readabili

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-12 Thread Georg Brandl
Georg Brandl added the comment: Interesting observation :) However, the alignment in the PEP is in prose, not code. -- assignee: docs@python -> nosy: +georg.brandl ___ Python tracker

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

2013-05-12 Thread Paul Jurczak
New submission from Paul Jurczak: This may be too subjective, but here it goes: PEP 8 discourages vertical alignment: "More than one space around an assignment (or other) operator to align it with another", but contrary to this rule, vertical alignment is used many times in the same paragraph,