Continuing indentation

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/04/2016 07:25 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:03 AM, alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> I disagree. When I'm skimming over code, I find it unlikely that I'll
> read the last token of the line. That's where trivialities like
> arguments to function calls are found. It's much more likely that I'll
> read the first token of the next line.

And, as any pythonista knows: The conditions aren't over until the 
indentation changes.  ;)

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~Ethan~