[Python-Dev] Why does PEP 7/8 explicitly suggest 2 spaces after a period? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri May 20 12:35:21 EDT 2016
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In Emacs, the paragraph reflow commands still try to keep a period
followed by only one space together on a line, under the assumption
that it might be something like Dr. Brett Cannon. A reasonable HTML
generator should ignore the second space. So all in all I still like
the two-space rule -- not so much for readability but because of
tooling.
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
Is there a specific reason for calling out two spaces in comments after a period(I realize it's probably for consistency, but I sure don't ever think about this when I write comment)? Otherwise who actually still writes using two spaces after punctuation? :)
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