On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 16:29, Thomas Passin <li...@tompassin.net> wrote: > > PEP-8, which is Guido's style guide and generally good to follow, does > not completely discourage single-line usage like the example. It's not > clear to me how Chris's example fits into the guidelines. > > PEP-8: > "While sometimes it’s okay to put an if/for/while with a small body on > the same line, never do this for multi-clause statements. > ... > # Wrong: > if foo == 'blah': do_blah_thing() > for x in lst: total += x > while t < 10: t = delay() > " > > If the one-liner were not in a multi-statement block, it would be all > right with PEP-8.
Not sure what your point is about it being "in" a multi-statement block - PEP 8 has nothing to say about that. What it's saying is that you shouldn't do this: if foo == 'blah': one(); two(); three() And I agree; if you're putting more than one statement after your 'if', it's generally clearest to have it on multiple lines. But a simple "continue" or "break" statement works just fine on the same line as the if. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list