Falsehoods People Believe about PEP 8 (was: Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 17:34:20 EDT 2016


On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Dan Sommers <dan at tombstonezero.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Apr 2016 16:44:30 -0400, Random832 wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016, at 16:21, Ben Finney wrote:
>>> * Oh, come on, no-one would use U+000C FORM FEED in source code.
>>
>> Some text editors have shortcuts to navigate to the previous/next line
>> that begins with a form feed.
>
> Add these to the list of myths:
>
> * All producers use the same tools to produce code.
> * All consumers use the same tools to consume code.
> * All entities that produce and consume code use the same tools.
> * All entities use the same tools to consume code that they do to produce it.

Those are definitely myths, but are they sufficiently connected to PEP 8?

ChrisA



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