Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > comp.lang.python > #73981

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces

Path csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces
Date Sat, 05 Jul 2014 11:17:13 +1200
Lines 15
Message-ID <c1oqvpFtsj1U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References <53B59358.2040404@tobiah.org> <CAPTjJmqv_-89sV+X3VX03yAEXT43RgfBbcYL0W3GOLRCWGwYjQ@mail.gmail.com> <mailman.11466.1404410853.18130.python-list@python.org> <53b6019f$0$29985$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <c1n1fbFi6omU1@mid.individual.net> <mailman.11507.1404498596.18130.python-list@python.org>
Mime-Version 1.0
Content-Type text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding 7bit
X-Trace individual.net VZHTXzCIFXatp6fuCz9lQglDjqRz//yt9MH+g83UQw21647TtL
Cancel-Lock sha1:01L+PIhC91L4gNqkQiMkOaBWbgI=
User-Agent Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711)
X-Accept-Language en-us, en
In-Reply-To <mailman.11507.1404498596.18130.python-list@python.org>
Xref csiph.com comp.lang.python:73981

Show key headers only | View raw


Lie Ryan wrote:
> PEP8 suggests using this style of method invocation:
> 
>     obj.method(foo,
>                bar,
>                baz)
> 
> which is an effect impossible to do correctly with tabs alone.

Yes, PEP 8 is self-contradictory in that regard.
I also happen to think that recommendation is insane
for other reasons as well, and cheerfully ignore it.

-- 
Greg

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | NextPrevious in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com> - 2014-07-03 21:07 +0300
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2014-07-03 12:22 -0700
  Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-07-04 01:21 +0000
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-07-04 11:30 +1000
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-03 21:37 -0400
    Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-07-04 18:55 +1200
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2014-07-04 19:29 +0100
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-07-04 15:04 -0400
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-07-04 20:50 +0100
        Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-07-05 11:17 +1200
          Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-07-04 18:35 -0500
      Re: PEP8 and 4 spaces Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-07-05 00:51 -0700

csiph-web