On 27-Aug-11 03:50 AM, Hans Mulder wrote:
On 27/08/11 09:08:20, Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
I'm wondering what advice you have about formatting if statements with
long conditions (I always format my code to<80 colums)

Here's an example taken from something I'm writing at the moment and
how I've formatted it:


if (isinstance(left, PyCompare) and isinstance(right, PyCompare)
and left.complist[-1] is right.complist[0]):
py_and = PyCompare(left.complist + right.complist[1:])
else:
py_and = PyBooleanAnd(left, right)

What would you do?

I would break after the '(' and indent the condition once and
put the '):' bit on a separate line, aligned with the 'if':


if (
isinstance(left, PyCompare)
and isinstance(right, PyCompare)
and left.complist[-1] is right.complist[0]
):
py_and = PyCompare(left.complist + right.complist[1:])
else:
py_and = PyBooleanAnd(left, right)

It may look ugly, but it's very clear where the condition part ends
and the 'then' part begins.

-- HansM

What about:
          cond=  isinstance(left, PyCompare)
                 and isinstance(right, PyCompare)
                 and left.complist[-1] is right.complist[0]
          py_and= PyCompare(left.complist + right.complist[1:])if cond
                  else: py_and = PyBooleanAnd(left, right)
Colin W.

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