[olug] ANN: Omaha Python Users Group Meeting, Aug 1 @ 7pm

[Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T]

On 7/30/07, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:
> There is a big difference between should and must.
Yes, there is.   Must is enforced by the interpreter/compiler, should
is enforced by convention.
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. ;)
With python, whitespace is not a should, it is a must.
conventions are listed in PEP8 -- http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
-jeff
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> Sam Tetherow
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> Jay Hannah wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Luke -Jr wrote:
> >
> >> I find it fairly annoying that Python requires indentation as syntax. When I
> >> modify code, I try to change as little as possible to minimize the diff, but
> >> with Python, removing an 'if' means removing an entire level of indentation
> >> on every line subsequent...
> >>
> >
> > Which is best practice anyway. Perl's flexibility is great when you need
> > it, but 99% of your if blocks should be indented. So if you remove an if
> > you'll re-indent the block.
> >
> > Assuming you want yourself and others to be able to read your code.  :)
> >
> > $0.02,
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