[Python-Dev] PEPs and PEP 8 changes (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Sun Sep 6 02:42:19 CEST 2015

On Sat, 5 Sep 2015 at 12:58 Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett at gmail.com> wrote:

PEP 498 is only the latest PEP where part of the concern is fear that it may encourage certain types of bad code.

Would it be reasonable to ask PEPs to start including a section on any recommended changes to PEP8? (e.g., "If an embedded expression doesn't fit on a single line, factor it out to a named variable.") I realize that there will be times when best practices (or common mistakes) aren't obvious in advance, but I'm a bit uncomfortable with "PEP 8 will probably grow advice"... if we expect to need such advice, then we should probably include it from the start. (PEP 8 is, after all, only advice.)

I have no issue suggesting it, but I don't think it needs to be a rule either. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150906/ba637978/attachment.html>

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