[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] peps: Add rules for indenting continuation lines.

Fri Jun 3 04:16:37 CEST 2011

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:
> Another way to approach that is
>> if some_function(
> Some,
> Parameters,
> To,
> Pass,
> ):
> If_True_Operations()
>> i.e. indent the *body* one more place. This avoids the jarriness of
> seeing an outdent that doesn't correspond to the closing of a suite.

−1. Continuation lines for a single statement *should* look different (I
disagree with “jarring”) from a suite of statements.
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