On 18 January 2016 at 05:10, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > While doing a review of http://bugs.python.org/review/26129/ I asked to have > curly braces put around all `if` statement bodies. Serhiy pointed out that > PEP 7 says curly braces are optional: > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0007/#id5. I would like to change that. > > My argument is to require them to prevent bugs like the one Apple made with > OpenSSL about two years ago: > https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html. Skipping the curly > braces is purely an aesthetic thing while leaving them out can lead to > actual bugs. > > Anyone object if I update PEP 7 to remove the optionality of curly braces in > PEP 7?
+1 from me, as I usually add them to code I'm editing anyway (I find it too hard to read otherwise, especially when there's a long series of them). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com