Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-17 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Chris Angelico writes: > >> Maybe we need a blog post "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About PEP >> 8", along the lines of the ones about time and names. > > Great suggestion. (Do you have a blog on which you could post an article > like this?)

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Dan Sommers
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 11:48:11 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:35 am, Dan Sommers wrote: > >> 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 conf

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 09:35 am, Dan Sommers wrote: > 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

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 06:44 am, 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. Are you saying that's

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Dan Sommers
On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 07:34:20 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Dan Sommers 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. >>

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Dan Sommers 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/

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Dan Sommers
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

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Random832
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. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > Great suggestion. (Do you have a blog on which you could post an article > like this?) I do. I'll let people contribute for a while, and then I'll post it on rosuav.blogspot.com. Thanks for the additions! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/ma

Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

2016-04-16 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Angelico writes: > Maybe we need a blog post "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About PEP > 8", along the lines of the ones about time and names. Great suggestion. (Do you have a blog on which you could post an article like this?) > Remember, every one of these is false. > > * All Python cod