[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

Paul Jurczak added the comment: Correct, it is in mixed prose and code. However, the underlying principle in this PEP is: guidelines provided here are intended to improve the readability of code. The author used vertical alignment (for mixed prose and code), because of its superior

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

Paul Jurczak added the comment: I admit, it is somewhat silly, but not entirely silly. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue17966

[issue17966] Lack of consistency in PEP 8 -- Style Guide for Python Code

New submission from Paul Jurczak: This may be too subjective, but here it goes: PEP 8 discourages vertical alignment: More than one space around an assignment (or other) operator to align it with another, but contrary to this rule, vertical alignment is used many times in the same paragraph