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Re: PEP 8 and indentation of continuation lines

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John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@gmail.com> writes:

> So last week PEP 8 was updated to reflect this. All fine and good. I
> happen to prefer this style myself. But there remains an example
> further down (left over from earlier incarnations of PEP 8) which
> might go against this:
>
> if (width == 0 and height == 0 and
>     color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or
>     highlight > 100):
>     raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
>
> The above satisfies the "opening paren" alignment, but due to the
> length of the keyword, the suite is obscured.  For this example,
> should PEP 8 use the double-indentation for the continuation lines?

I wrote some code just today that needs the above issue addressed. I did
it like this::

    if (
          width == 0 and height == 0 and
          color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or
          highlight > 100):
      raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")

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Ben Finney

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PEP 8 and indentation of continuation lines John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@gmail.com> - 2011-06-20 21:11 -0700
  Re: PEP 8 and indentation of continuation lines Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-21 15:22 +1000
    Re: PEP 8 and indentation of continuation lines Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-06-21 15:39 +1000

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