[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 8 01:36:01 CET 2006

Paul Moore wrote:

+0 for mentioning parens around conditional expressions in PEP 8. But it's aready covered by the general "code should be readable" in my view.

Indeed. Writing readable code is ultimately the responsibility of the person doing the writing. It's enough that you can put parentheses around things if it helps readability.

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