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[alister]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 10:12:58 +0000, cl wrote:

> Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 12:23 pm, INADA Naoki wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >>
>> >> Indeed. I don't understand why, when splitting a condition such as
>> >> this,
>> >> people tend to put the operator at the end of each line.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Because PEP8 says:
>> > 
>> >> The preferred place to break around a binary operator is after the
>> > operator, not before it. http://pep8.org/#maximum-line-length
>> 
>> PEP 8 is wrong :-)
>> 
> Yes, I agree.  In my mind the logic is:-
> 
>     IF xxx
>         AND yyy AND zzz OR aaa
>     THEN do something
> 
> The PEP8 correct(er):-
> 
>     IF xxx AND
>          yyy AND zzz OR aaa
>     THEN do something
> 
> ... just seems all wrong and difficult to understand.

not at all
the split after the operator shows that their is more to that line
splitting before & the reader could believe that the condition ends there

PEP 8 is mos definitely correct on this one



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