[Python-Dev] Update PEP 7 to require curly braces in C

Alexander Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Tue Jan 19 01:09:05 EST 2016


On 1/19/2016 01:04, Glenn Linderman wrote:
> On 1/18/2016 9:16 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
>> Alexander Walters wrote:
>>> I am not a core developer, but I just kind of feel its hypocritical 
>>> to oppose always using brackets for the development of *python*
>>
>> If we were being *really* pythonic, we would write all
>> the C code without any braces at all, and feed it through
>> a filter that adds them based on indentation. End of
>> argument. :-)
>>
>
> No argument, an extension:  If we were being *really* pythonic, we 
> would re-implement CPython in Python, with a Python-to-C option 
> (Cython?), and then we wouldn't need to worry about using braces for 
> block delimiters.
So what I can take away from this is pypy is the pythonic python.

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