[Python-Dev] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C (original) (raw)

Stefan Krah skrah.temporarily at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 05:29:07 EST 2016

M.-A. Lemburg <mal egenix.com> writes:

> Currently this thread stands at:

Make that: > +1 > Brett > Ethan > Robert > Georg > Nick > Maciej Szulik > +0 > Guido > -0 > Serhiy > -1 MAL > Victor (maybe; didn't specifically vote) > Larry > Stefan

I want to clarify my position a bit: Personally, in _decimal/* I've always used braces and I prefer that.

But from reading the Python sources in general, I got the impression that the default style at least for one-liner if-statements is to omit braces. So, in memoryview.c, I adapted to that style.

I think enforcing braces won't do anything for security. DJB (who had a single exploit found in qmail in 20 years) even uses nested for-loops without braces.

IMO secure code can only be achieved by auditing it quietly in a terminal, not being distracted by peripheral things like version control and web interfaces (green merge buttons!) and trying to do formal proofs (if time allows for it).

So I would not want to enforce a style if it makes some people unhappy.

Stefan Krah

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