[Python-Dev] conditional expressions - add parens?

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 8 01:36:01 CET 2006


Paul Moore wrote:

> +0 for mentioning parens around conditional expressions in PEP 8. But
> it's aready covered by the general "code should be readable" in my
> view.

Indeed. Writing readable code is ultimately the
responsibility of the person doing the writing.
It's enough that you *can* put parentheses around
things if it helps readability.

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