Ever since I download the MyCharm IDE a few days ago, I've been noticing
all sort of "spacing conventions (from PEP) that are suggested. How do
folks regard these in general?
For instance, the conventions suggest that
if x>y :
pass
should be written
if x > y:
pass
Personally, I like seeing a space before the colon (:). And then in
my_list = [ i for i in range(0, 10) ]
it complains about my extra space inside of the brackets.
If you are teaching beginning students, do you expect them to try to
follow these sorts of conventions? Is it perfectly fine to let "taste"
guide you (I'm just trying to get a feel for the philosophy here)? I
also notice "break" and exception handling is used much more in Python
than in C++, for instance. I was taught "break" and "continue" led to
"unstructured code"--but that was a while back. I can still see their
use causing potential trouble in (really-long) real-world code.
Bill
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