Python is readable

Thu Mar 15 18:12:28 EDT 2012

On 03/15/2012 01:40 PM, Kiuhnm wrote:
> Moreover, I think that
> if (............
> ............
> ............):
> ............
> ............
> ............
> is not very readable anyway.

Sure but neither is
 if (............ \
 ............ \
 ............)
 ............
 ............
 ............
In other words, with or without the : if you format your if statements
in an unreadable way, it will be unreadable. Nothing to do with
python's syntax at all.
Now,
 if ............
 ............
 ............:
 ............
 ............
 ............
isn't too bad for readability. In other words the C-ism of putting the
IF predicate in parenthesis normally doesn't belong in python, though
there are cases when you need to enforce a certain operator precedence,
granted.