On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > On Mar 01, 2017, at 03:04 PM, Mathieu BEAL wrote: > >>I was wondering why the PEP coding style ( >>https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/) is not natively included in python >>grammar ? > > Well, the simple answer is that the grammar predates PEP 8 (or any PEP) by > many years.
Also, the grammar has a much stricter backward compatibility guarantee than any style guide ever can (or should). After some discussion about this and related topics on python-list, I posted this collection: http://rosuav.blogspot.com/2016/04/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about.html ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
