On 01/02/2012 12:47 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Really? �Do we need to have a brace war?
People have different preferences.
The standard library includes some of both styles
depending on what the maintainer thought was cleanest to their eyes in a given context.

I'm with Raymond. �Code should be readable, and code reviews are the best way to achieve that--not endlessly specific formatting rules.

Have there been bugs in CPython that the proposed new PEP 7 rule would have prevented?
The irony is that style guides exist to *avoid* debates like this. Yes,  the choices are arbitrary. Yes, tastes differ. Yes, there are exceptions  to the rules. But still, once a style rule has been set, the idea is to stop debating and just code.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Larry Hastings <larry@hastings.org> wrote:

On 01/02/2012 12:47 AM, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
Really? �Do we need to have a brace war?
People have different preferences.
The standard library includes some of both styles
depending on what the maintainer thought was cleanest to their eyes in a given context.

I'm with Raymond. �Code should be readable, and code reviews are the best way to achieve that--not endlessly specific formatting rules.

Have there been bugs in CPython that the proposed new PEP 7 rule would have prevented?

The irony is that style guides exist to \*avoid\* debates like this. Yes, the choices are arbitrary. Yes, tastes differ. Yes, there are exceptions to the rules. But still, once a style rule has been set, the idea is to stop debating and just code.

--
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/\~guido)