Berker Peksag added the comment:
Thanks for the report and for the PR, John. Karthikeyan is correct.
Many of the modules in the stdlib predate PEP 8. Also, making PEP 8-only
changes would make "git blame" less useful and can cause regressions (IIRC it
has happened at least once, but I don't
John Joyce added the comment:
Oh, I see. I did not realize that tidying would not be accepted. That explains
a lot. As it offended linters based on PEPs I chose that as the best match. It
is pedantic, but many linting actions are not far from compiling... they are
generally parsing to determ
Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment:
Thanks for the contribution. Is there any syntax error on using the file since
you have classified it as compile error or the error messages are related to
linters? On a general note style related contributions are not merged since
they create whit
New submission from John Joyce :
In distutils/core.py ...
Line 227 is over-indented, inconsistent with the rest of the file.
Line 226 is over-indented, inconsistent with the rest of the file.
Line 114 is over-indented by 2 characters, inconsistent with the rest of the
file.
else:
