pylint woes

[DFS]

On 5/8/2016 6:05 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, May 8, 2016, at 02:46 PM, DFS wrote:
>> On 5/8/2016 5:38 PM, Stephen Hansen wrote:
>>> On Sun, May 8, 2016, at 02:16 PM, DFS wrote:
>>>> I was surprised to see the PEP8 guide approve of:
>>>>
>>>> "Yes: if x == 4: print x, y; x, y = y, x"
>>>>
>>>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#pet-peeves
>>>
>>> That is not approving of that line of code as something to mimic, its
>>> speaking *only* about *whitespace*.
>>>
>>> ALL its saying is, "don't put spaces before commas, colons or
>>> semicolons". You can infer nothing else about it.
>>
>> I can infer that it's 100% approved of, since he used it as an example.
>
> Not if you don't want to be a fool.

Why would you label the author of that style guide - Guido van Rossum - 
a fool?




> And at this point I'm signing out from helping you.


A fool and a fool are soon parted.