Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: Retro, you are blowing this way out of proportion. Style guidelines are not absolute rules that must be followed at all cost, and there are always exceptions. You need to have a lot of experience before you can claim with certainty that a certain piece of code should or should not be formatted according to the style guidelines. (This is as opposed to the syntax of the language, which is an absolute set of rules where violations raise a SyntaxError.)
In this case, the PEP never meant to say that all arithmetic operators have to be surrounded by spaces. That would make just as little sense as requiring no spaces. The words in the PEP cannot possibly approximate the set of heuristics I have in my mind for this purpose, and I don't think they have to. When I wrote PEP 8 (or actually its precursor), I was merely *suggesting* that certain uses of spaces look better than others. If you are interpreting this as requiring all examples needing to follow the literal style guide, well, Im sorry, but that's not how it was meant, and I am not willing to either change the examples (the specific one you quote looks just fine to me) or to edit the PEP to try and formulate a more complex rule. In my experience, the more baroque the rule the more arguments it elicits. _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4649> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
