On Jan 02, 2012, at 02:08 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: >The irony is that style guides exist to *avoid* debates like this. Yes, the >choices are arbitrary. Yes, tastes differ. Yes, there are exceptions to the >rules. But still, once a style rule has been set, the idea is to stop >debating and just code.
+1 The other reason why style guides exist is to give contributors some sense of what they should shoot for. I've worked on existing code bases where there's so little consistency I can't tell what the author's preferences are even if I wanted to adhere to them. -Barry _______________________________________________ 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
