[Python-Dev] PEP 7 clarification request: braces (original) (raw)
Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jan 3 04:25:55 CET 2012
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On Jan 02, 2012, at 02:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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.
+1
The other reason why style guides exist is to give contributors some sense of what they should shoot for. I've worked on existing code bases where there's so little consistency I can't tell what the author's preferences are even if I wanted to adhere to them.
-Barry
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