n00b question on spacing

[John Gordon]

In <mailman.3669.1371849457.3114.python-list at python.org> "Yves S. Garret" <yoursurrogategod at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi, I have a question about breaking up really long lines of code in Python.

> I have the following line of code:
> log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s" %(settings['MONGODB_DB'],
> settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']), level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)

> Given the fact that it goes off very far to the right on my screen is not
> terribly pleasing to my eyes (and can be rude for other developers).

> I was thinking of splitting it up like so:
> log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s"
>   %(settings['MONGODB_DB'], settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']),
>   level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)

> Is this ok?  Are there any rules in Python when it comes to breaking up
> long lines of code?

There are guidelines in the PEP8 document:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Check out the section entitled 'Code lay-out'.

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