white space in expressions and argument lists

John Salerno johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com
Thu Mar 2 11:00:06 EST 2006


Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> John Salerno enlightened us with:
>> To me, the space makes it nicer and more readable, but I was
>> surprised to read in Guido's blog that he thinks 1+2 should be the
>> normal way to write it. What does everyone else think?
> 
> I usually write 1 + 2 and func(a, b). Sometimes I even use more spaces
> to align stuff:
> 
>     foo    = 'bar'
>     foobar = 42
>     azimov = 3
> 
> Sybren

Guido listed a few rules that he'd like to see implemented in 2.5, and 
one of them was no more than one consecutive white space. I don't know 
how realistic some of those suggestions are, but they seem to be getting 
a little to restrictive.



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