[Python-Dev] Suggested addition to PEP 8 for context managers (original) (raw)

Jan Kaliszewski zuo at chopin.edu.pl
Tue Apr 17 15:29:54 CEST 2012

Paul Moore dixit (2012-04-17, 08:14):

On 16 April 2012 17:10, Nam Nguyen <bitsink at gmail.com> wrote: > PEP 8 suggests no extra spaces after and before square brackets, and > colons. So code like this is appropriate: > > alist[1:3] > > But I find it less readable in the case of: > > alist[pos + 1:-1] > > The colon is seemingly lost in the right. > > Would it be better to read like below? > > alist[pos + 1 : -1] > > Any opinion?

It says no space before a colon, not after. So the following should be OK (and is what I'd use): alist[pos + 1: -1]

I'd prefer either:

a_list[pos+1:-1]

or

a_list[(pos + 1):-1]

Regards. *j

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