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On Friday, March 4, 2016 at 6:03:48 AM UTC-8, alister 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
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the
> earlier reports.

I wouldn't call PEP 8 "correct".  I would say that you just simply agree with PEP 8's suggestion.

You guys are spending way too much time fighting over something that is clearly subjective.  Nobody is "correct" here.  There's no right and wrong, just simple preference.