David Marker wrote on Fri Aug 15 2008 at 08:45:57 GMT-0700 (PDT):
> UVR wrote:
>> Is there an ON coding style guide for python?
>>   
> I don't think we have an official answer to that yet.

Is there a coding style in consideration?

> Python has had its own style for a long time [1],
> and there are even style checkers for it [2].
> 
> Then again Sun has had a C style guideline for even
> longer that predisposes our engineers to tabs (with
> editors set to displaying them as 8 spaces wide) [3].
> 
> [...]

This is precisely what prompted my email.

> We are not using any tool to enforce python style in
> ON at this time.

It will obviously be advantageous for ON to standardize
on one python style.  But meanwhile, is it acceptable to
simply use the style in [1] below?

-Ravindra.

> [1] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
> [2] http://svn.browsershots.org/trunk/devtools/pep8/
> [3] 
> http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/getting_started_docs/cstyle.ms.pdf
>  
> 
>      Section 6, "Indentation"


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