[Python-Dev] PEP 8 misnaming (original) (raw)

Geoffrey Spear geoffspear at gmail.com
Wed Mar 14 12:30:31 CET 2012

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

In the "Maximum Line Length" section of PEP 8 it says:  "The preferred place to break around a binary operator is after the operator, not before it." And after that is an example (trimmed here):  if (width == 0 and height == 0 and  color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or  highlight > 100):  raise ValueError("sorry, you lose") In the example the line is broken after the 'and' or 'or' keywords, not after the '==' operator (which is the nice way of doing it). Maybe the sentence above is misleading?

'and' and 'or' are both binary logical operators. The fact that they are keywords is irrelevant; the sentence isn't misleading.

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