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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 09:50:36 +1100
Subject: Re: Code style query: multiple assignments in if/elif tree
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> wrote:
> On 3/31/14 12:03 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> Incidentally, if you want to see the code in context, it's here:
>>
>> https://github.com/Rosuav/runningtime/blob/master/runningtime.py
>>
>> ChrisA
>
>
> I know you didn't ask about these aspects, but they jumped out at me: tabs
> for indentation instead of spaces, and docstring-style comments in places
> that aren't docstrings.  These seem like unusual choices.

Tabs instead of spaces? They're plenty common enough, but I am *not*
getting into that debate now. The file's perfectly consistent - aside
from inside strings, all indentation is done with tabs, one per level.

How do you go about doing multi-line comments? I know I've seen other
code using triple-quoted strings for long comments before.

ChrisA