Hi,

Shouldn't Python use PEP8 in its examples in the documentation ? I found a lot of missing spaces around binary operators, and things like "setup (name = 'PackageName'," (found in the Distributing section, but that's just a single example) which hurt my eyes and will probably teach bad practices to newcomers reading it.

If everybody agree documentation examples should be PEP8 compliant, I'll can gladly provide some patches.

I also found http://bugs.python.org/issue23921 which is probably not merged as it's still open, and the patch don't fix my example, so there is probably some problems left.

In general I agree with fixing style problems in the documentation, especially if you supply patches :)

> I found a lot of missing spaces around binary operators

Please don't make trivial changes like this.

If it is fixing stuff like “lambda x: x +1” (from Issue 23921), I am in favour. But if the code example is self-consistent and uses a reasonable style, it should not be changed. Julien, perhaps you should give an example to clarify.

No spaces around binary operator is OK in PEP8.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue11425

Without a list of places that don't follow the PEP8, I'm going to close this.

I opened this ticket mainly to know the opinions on those modifications, I'll slowly review what I see, and provide little patches from time to time, only when the PEP8 infringement look obvious.

I think the most obvious PEP8 infringement ARE to be fixed, typically in the tutorial: The documentation is where people learn, let's teach them the right thing to do :-)

Thanks to naoki I just learnt that no spaces around binary operators are OK  when it enhance the readability (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#other-recommendations) like 2*2 + 3*2.

I close this ticket, I'll just mention if I propose a patch in a new one.

Bests.

> I'll slowly review what I see, and provide little patches from
> time to time, only when the PEP8 infringement look obvious.

Sounds good to me.  If you are not sure you can ask on IRC (#python-dev on freenode) or the core-mentorship mailing list.