python styles: why Use spaces around arithmetic operators?

[rantingrick]

On Jul 26, 5:20 pm, Peng Yu <pengyu... at gmail.com> wrote:
> This webpagehttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/recommends the
> following. It looks to me that both styles are fine. Could anybody let
> me know what the rationale is behind this recommendation?

The rational is simple. Guido is God and if you don't follow his words
then you will be tortured. His favorite means is by forcing you to
wear Dutch wooden shoes every day whist programming Ruby! ;-)