On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > I actually make use of the feature when dealing with APIs which both a) > take lots of arguments (more than fit comfortably on two lines at > whatever indentation they are called), and b) have optional trailing > arguments: I always leave the trailing comma in place in such cases, > with the closing paren on the following line, so that adding or removing > an argument at the end of the list stays consistent (the diffs are > better, too, when I use this pattern).
Same here, and it's a soft style rule at Google that trailing commas are good -- they can help produce shorter diffs. I'm at least +0 on allowing trailing commas in the situation the OP mentioned. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
