Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of CodingStandards

Timestamp:

2009-11-21T05:03:46Z (15 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

passive aggressive carping

CodingStandards

@@ -13 +13 @@
  * Put parenthesis around tuples if it helps make the code more readable, leave them off if not.
 
-=== comments, idioms, miscellany, license, imports, docstrings ===
+=== comments, idioms, miscellany, license, imports, docstrings, line widths ===
 
 Here is a useful header for starting new Python files:
@@ -36 +36 @@
  * Feel free to ignore the part of PEP-8 that says to put each module import on a separate line, but don't import modules from multiple separate packages on the same line.
  * Ignore the part of PEP-257 which says to put the trailing {{{{"""}}} of a multi-line docstring on a separate line separated by a blank line.  (That rule appears to have been motivated by a limitation of Emacs which has been fixed.)
+ * Ignore the part of PEP-8 which specifes 79- or 72- char line widths.  Use whatever line-widths look best to you in your editor on your screen.  Please don't change other people's line-widths unnecessarily, making it look better on your display and worse on theirs.  That's not nice.  (Note: unless you are Brian.  Brian can do anything he wants!)
 
 === truths and falsehoods ===