Makes sense, maybe you can send a PR to the Python/peps repo?

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On Oct 8, 2016 12:27 PM, "Jelte Fennema" <m...@jeltef.nl> wrote:

> I have an idea to improve indenting guidelines for dictionaries for better
> readability: If a value in a dictionary literal is placed on a new line, it
> should have (or at least be allowed to have) a n additional hanging indent.
>
> Below is an example:
>
> mydict = {'mykey':
>               'a very very very very very long value',
>           'secondkey': 'a short value',
>           'thirdkey': 'a very very very '
>               'long value that continues on the next line',
> }
>
>
> As opposed to this IMHO much less readable version:
>
> mydict = {'mykey':
>           'a very very very very very long value',
>           'secondkey': 'a short value',
>           'thirdkey': 'a very very very '
>           'long value that continues on the next line',
> }
>
> As you can see it is much harder in the second version to distinguish
> between keys and values.
>
>
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