Python Newbie

[Joshua Landau]

On 24 February 2013 20:48, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:

> In article <mailman.2434.1361738581.2939.python-list at python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:34 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com>
> wrote:
> > > Some languages require parentheses, others don't.
> > >
> > > C does. C++, Java and C# are descended from, or influenced by, C.
> > >
> > > Algol didn't (doesn't?). Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Ada, and others
> > > don't.
> > >
> > > Parentheses are used where required, but not used where they're not
> > > required, in order to reduce visual clutter.
> >
> > And just to muddy the waters, parens are used in Python when the
> > condition goes over a line break:
> >
> > if (condition1
> >     and condition2
> >     and condition3):
> >
> > ChrisA
>
> That could also be written:
>
> if condition1 \
>    and condition2 \
>    and condition3:
>
> but as a practical matter, I would write it in the parens style, if for
> no other reason than because emacs does a better job of auto-indenting
> it that way :-)
>

Pah,

condition1 = long_condition_expression_1
condition2 = long_condition_expression_2
condition3 = long_condition_expression_3

if condition1 and condition2 and condition3:
    STUFF

No multiline needed. If you have *many* conditions, then:

supercondition = all(
    condition1,
    condition2,
    condition3,
    condition4,
    condition5,
    condition6,
    condition7,
    condition8,
    condition9
) # or equiv.

if supercondition:
    STUFF


Reason:
Indentation should be *really simple*.
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