[Python-Dev] PEP 8 misnaming

Wed Mar 14 12:30:31 CET 2012

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Facundo Batista
<facundobatista at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>> In the "Maximum Line Length" section of PEP 8 it says:
>>    "The preferred place to break around a binary operator is *after*
> the operator, not before it."
>> And after that is an example (trimmed here):
>>            if (width == 0 and height == 0 and
>                color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or
>                highlight > 100):
>                raise ValueError("sorry, you lose")
>> In the example the line is broken after the 'and' or 'or' *keywords*,
> not after the '==' *operator* (which is the nice way of doing it).
>> Maybe the sentence above is misleading?

'and' and 'or' are both binary logical operators. The fact that they
are keywords is irrelevant; the sentence isn't misleading.