On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Dan Sommers <d...@tombstonezero.net> wrote: > In terms of easier to read, I find code easier to read when the operators > are at the beginnings of the lines (PEP 8 notwithstanding): > > x = (someobject.somemethod(object3, thing) > + longfunctionname(object2) > + otherfunction(value1, value2, value3)) >
Without the parentheses, this is legal but (probably) useless; it applies the unary + operator to the return value of those functions. Putting the + at the end of the previous line at least prevents that, since most unary operators bind to the operand on the right; but there's still the potential for ambiguity. When line breaks are significant, they cannot be randomly inserted inside expressions. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
