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From: Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com>
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Subject: Re: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 08:05:34 BST
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in 758117 20160416 053809 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>Until now, PEP 8 has recommended that multi-line expressions should break
>*after* infix operators:
>
>
>result = (this_value *
>some_value +
>another_value -
>excess_value or
>default_value
>)
>
>
>After a mercifully short discussion on the Python-Ideas mailing list, Guido
>has been persuaded to change PEP 8 to recommend that the break should occur
>*before* the infix operator:
>
>
>result = (this_value
>* some_value
>+ another_value
>- excess_value
>or default_value
>)
>
>
>This makes me happy :-)

That's how I've always done it.

>
>
>Guido's announcement, including links to relevant discussion:
>
>https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-April/144205.html