[Python-ideas] PEP 8 coding style included in grammar ?

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Thu Mar 2 03:26:25 EST 2017


On 02.03.2017 01:04, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Mar 01, 2017, at 03:04 PM, Mathieu BEAL wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering why the PEP coding style (
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) is not natively included in python
>> grammar ?
> 
> Well, the simple answer is that the grammar predates PEP 8 (or any PEP) by
> many years.

... plus PEP 8 is a style guide, not a fixed set of rules. You
are free to extend it, mix and match it, to suit your own needs.

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