[Python-Dev] PEP 7 and braces { .... } on if (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Thu Jun 1 17:08:59 EDT 2017

If you create an issue at github.com/python/peps and assign it to me I will get to it someday. :)

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 00:19 Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

2017-05-31 19:27 GMT+02:00 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>: > I interpret the PEP (...)

Right, the phrasing requires to "interpret" it :-) > (...) as saying that you should use braces everywhere but not > to add them in code that you're not modifying otherwise. (I.e. don't go on a > brace-adding rampage.) If author and reviewer of a PR disagree I would go > with "add braces" since that's clearly the PEP's preference. This is C code. > We should play it safe. Would someone be nice enough to try to rephrase the PEP 7 to explain that? Just to avoid further boring discussion on the C coding style... Victor

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