Regarding coding style

[Michael Wieher]

Placing 2 spaces after a period is standard, grammatically correct English,
at least as I was taught...

I don't know who Strunk or White are.  Maybe Mr. Pink has a book you can
refer to instead.

2008/3/7, K Viltersten <tmp1 at viltersten.com>:
>
> I've been recommended reading of:
> http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> and in there i saw two things that i
> need to get elaborated.
>
>
> 1. When writing English, Strunk and
> White apply.
>
> Where can i download it? Am i actually
> expected to read the whole book? How
> many people actually do aply it?
>
>
> 2. You should use two spaces after a
> sentence-ending period.
>
> For heavens sake, why? I've always been
> obstructed by the double blanks but
> tolerated them. Now, that i read that
> it actually is a recommendation, i need
> to ask about the purpose.
>
>
> Thanks for the input in advance.
>
> --
> Regards
> Konrad Viltersten
> --------------------------------
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> ambition - lack of sense to be lazy
>
>
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