[Baypiggies] padding variable assignments, why is it bad?

[Heikki Toivonen]

With padding you may be required to change all of those lines when you add a new variable. More work, and messes around with source control system's ability to show who added those lines and why.

Nam Nguyen <bitsink at gmail.com> wrote:

>PEP 8 also says (quoted as-is, with original misspellings):
>
>    When in doubt, use your best judgment
>
>So, it's okay if you find that spaces help you in reading code. Make
>sure to keep it consistent in the same module.
>
>Nam
>
>
>On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav
><alexmiroslav at gmail.com> wrote:
>> (Reading this email requires a monospaced font.)
>>
>> I do this a lot in my code:
>>
>>     foo          = 1
>>     foo_bar      = 2
>>     foo_bar_quux = 3
>>
>> but pep8, which I started using recently, considers this wrong, so I
>> have to rewrite to the more common form:
>>
>>     foo = 1
>>     foo_bar = 2
>>     foo_bar_quux = 3
>>
>> which I think sacrifices readability. Perhaps this is the n00b in me
>> talking, but why is this considered bad?
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