On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 07:32:01 +0800, Xue Fuqiao wrote: > Hi all, > > (English is not my native language; please excuse typing errors.) > > I'm a Python newbie and just started reading PEP 8. PEP says: > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > |The closing brace/bracket/parenthesis on multi-line constructs may > |either line up under the last item of the list, as in: > | > |my_list = [ > | 1, 2, 3, > | 4, 5, 6, > | ] > |result = some_function_that_takes_arguments( > | 'a', 'b', 'c', > | 'd', 'e', 'f', > | ) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I think the last item in my_list/result is 6/'f', respectively. So why > doesn't the bracket/paren line up _under_ the last item? ISTM the code > isn't consistent with the description.
I agree. I think it is just a mistake, and should say "under the FIRST item of the list". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list