Is it new style or just lack of style?

[John Schmitt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul at boddie.net [mailto:paul at boddie.net]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:18 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Is it new style or just lack of style?
> 
> 
> Roman Suzi <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message 
> news:<mailman.996819245.9680.python-list at python.org>...
> > Hello!
> > 
> > More and more I am starting to see people adding extra
> > blanks in ( ).
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Is it new style?  I am sure this contradicts Python Style
> > Guide, but where from this new style appeared? I saw Java programs
> > with the same ugly padding...
> 
> I first saw it employed in Java and C++ programs some time ago. I
> suspect it has more to do with the usage of poor text editing software
> than anything else; that is, software which isn't well-suited to
> editing programs.
[...]

Not in my case it isn't.  I love that formatting style.  It seems that I can
see what's what with just a quick glance.

Whitespace is beautiful and my code is art! :-)

>From my web page ( http://www.geocities.com/nuonguy/ ):

"We should be willing to look at the source code we produce not as the
end product of a more interesting process, but as an artifact in its
own right. It should look good stuck up on the wall."
   - Alan & Colston's "The Programmer's Stone"

if __name__ == '__main__':
	sys.exit( main( sys.argv[0], sys.argv[1:] ) )

Function definitions can also be made more beautiful.  I've always done this
kind of thing in C way before the blessed day I encountered Python.

If I have a function that takes a few arguments, I lay it out like this:

def foo\
(
    argument1,    # meaninful comments
    argument2,
):
    # more beautiful code here

or in C, line up the types and variables in easy-to-read columns:

void foo
(
    DataType       meaninful_variable,  // meaninful comment goes here
    int            var1,                // meaninful comment goes here
    char           var2,                // meaninful comment goes here
    OpaqueDataType var3                 // meaninful comment goes here
)
{
    // more beautful code
}