Thoughts from a newbie

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Mon Dec 16 09:18:10 EST 2002


stevesusenet at yahoo.com (Steve) writes:

> aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote 
> 
> > Someone already mentioned this, but just to emphasize it, PEP 8 contains
> > a list of Python style guidelines, and both of these are covered.
> > 
> > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html
> 
> Well, it is hard enough to get people to put comments in their code
> and code neatly, let alone stick to a style guide.

Well, PEP 8 is largely about code for Python's standard library, where
it is easier to enforce such things at patch review time.

Cheers,
M.

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