Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace

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On 26/07/11 00:05, Ethan Furman wrote:
> Ed Leafe wrote:
>> Religious fervor is one thing; freedom of religion is another!  ;-)
>>
>> We strive for readability in our code, yet every printed material
>> designed to be read, such as books, newspapers, etc., uses a
>> proportional font.
> 
> The books I purchase use monospaced fonts for code examples.  Yours don't?

Strange that. Most do, but that's really just tradition.

I have Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language" on my shelf,
and that prints code in a proportional font.

There are two possible reasons to prefer a monospaced font for code:

 1. You're used to it: tradition. This is a legacy of the era when
    computers simply didn't display proportional fonts.

 2. Your editor (my usual preference, Vim, is an example) doesn't
    support proportional fonts. This is a legacy of the era when
    computers simply didn't display proportional fonts.

Code is different from prose. We parse it so differently that printing
it in a monospaced font doesn't significantly hurt readability - but it
doesn't make it more readable either.

In the end, it really doesn't matter. This is probably why I enjoyed
writing this message so much.

Thomas

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Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-21 18:45 -0400
  Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-07-21 21:12 -0400
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com> - 2011-07-21 22:11 -0500
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-25 15:05 -0700
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-26 01:26 +0200
      Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace AlienBaby <matt.j.warren@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 05:46 -0700
        Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-27 10:49 +1000
  Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-07-22 10:11 +0200
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-22 12:23 +0200
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-22 12:59 +0000
      Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 12:13 -0600
        Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-22 19:05 +0000
          Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2011-07-22 19:13 +0000
            Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-22 19:15 +0000
            Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Brandon Harris <brandon.harris@reelfx.com> - 2011-07-22 14:53 -0500
            Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-07-22 13:56 -0700
              Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-28 01:24 +0200
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-07-28 06:18 +0000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 20:25 +1000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-07-29 18:45 +0000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 07:18 +1000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace "OKB (not okblacke)" <brenNOSPAMbarn@NObrenSPAMbarn.net> - 2011-07-31 01:23 +0000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-31 18:10 +1200
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-31 17:56 +1000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-08-01 17:16 +0200
            Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Corey Richardson <kb1pkl@aim.com> - 2011-07-22 17:17 -0400
            Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Michael Brown <Michael@invalid.invalid> - 2011-07-24 13:07 +0000
              Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Zero Piraeus <schesis@gmail.com> - 2011-07-24 11:08 -0400
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-07-25 07:37 +1000
                Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2011-07-25 11:37 +0000
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2011-07-22 19:05 +0200
      Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 10:43 -0700
        Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-22 12:14 -0600
    Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-23 03:27 +1000

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