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Author	tlynn
Recipients	docs@python, tlynn
Date	2013-11-12.13:33:51
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Message-id	<1384263232.23.0.922688589796.issue19560@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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PEP 8 currently has:: Yes:: ... c = (a+b) * (a-b) No:: ... c = (a + b) * (a - b) That looks wrong to me -- surely the parens are a sufficient precedence hint, and don't need further squashing inside? This will be worse with any non-trivial example. I suspect it may also lead to silly complications in code formatting tools. This was changed by Guido as part of a reversion in issue 16239, but I wonder whether that example was intended to be included?

PEP 8 currently has::

  Yes::

      ...
      c = (a+b) * (a-b)

  No::

      ...
      c = (a + b) * (a - b)

That looks wrong to me -- surely the parens are a sufficient
precedence hint, and don't need further squashing inside?
This will be worse with any non-trivial example.  I suspect
it may also lead to silly complications in code formatting tools.

This was changed by Guido as part of a reversion in issue 16239,
but I wonder whether that example was intended to be included?

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