PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace

[Terry Reedy]

On 7/21/2011 2:46 PM, Andrew Berg wrote:
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> On 2011.07.21 01:32 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>> So, the PEP says: do not align operators. End of story.
> I'm pretty sure that colons, commas and equals signs are not operators.

Whether or not they are intended, the rationale is that lining up does 
not work with proportional fonts. However, I have IDLE using fixed-space 
font and I line things up how I want. PEP 8 only applies to new stdlib 
code. For anything else, it is advisory on a point by point basis.

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Terry Jan Reedy