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

Petri Lehtinen petri at digip.org
Mon Jan 2 14:24:28 CET 2012

Antoine Pitrou wrote:

I don't like having the else on the same line as the closing brace, and prefer:

if (cond) { statement; } else { statement; }

And this is how it's written in PEP-7. It seems to me that PEP-7 doesn't require braces. But it explicitly forbids

if (cond) {
    statement;
} else {
    statement;
}

by saying "braces as shown", and then showing them like this:

if (mro != NULL) {
    ...
}
else {
    ...
}

That said, I agree with Benjamin: the shorter form is visually lighter and should not be frown upon.

Me too.

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