[Python-Dev] PEP 7 clarification request: braces (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jan 2 23:08:17 CET 2012

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Larry Hastings <larry at 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.

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