Python style guidelines

[Richie Hindle]

[Will]
> I think nothing is more evil about coding standards than indentation. 

The first time I hacked the sources to Python itself I was astonished to
find that the coding standard for the C code specifies 8-space indents and
a line limit of 80 characters.  How could anyone write code in such a
restricted format?  Then I looked at the code and realised what a
wonderful effect those rules have.  The code is simple, clearly written,
well organised and easy to read and understand.  And I believe the code I
contributed is higher quality as a result of those restrictions.  Had I
followed my own (loose) standard of 4-character indents and 100-character
lines, the code would have been harder to read - it would have had deeper
nesting and more complicated expressions.

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Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com