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

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2016-01-18 6:20 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
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> On Sun, 17 Jan 2016 at 11:10 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org 
> <mailto:brett at python.org>> wrote:
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>     While doing a review of http://bugs.python.org/review/26129/ I
>     asked to have curly braces put around all `if` statement bodies.
>     Serhiy pointed out that PEP 7 says curly braces are optional:
>     https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/#id5. I would like to
>     change that.
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>     My argument is to require them to prevent bugs like the one Apple
>     made with OpenSSL about two years ago:
>     https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html. Skipping
>     the curly braces is purely an aesthetic thing while leaving them
>     out can lead to actual bugs.
>
>     Anyone object if I update PEP 7 to remove the optionality of curly
>     braces in PEP 7?
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> Currently this thread stands at:
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> +1
>   Brett
>   Ethan
>   Robert
>   Georg
>   Nick
>   Maciej Szulik


I guess you forgot to count Barry and me as +1s.

Yury