Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

Sat Apr 16 08:03:19 EDT 2016

On 2016年4月16日 06:51 pm, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:
>>> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
>>> It doesn't really matter one way or another. The true WTF is that it's
>>> been changed.
>>>> Why? Was PEP 8 inscribed on stone tablets carried down from a mountain?
>> In a way, yes.
>> I don't follow PEP 8 to the tee; probably nobody does. However, I don't
> see the point of turning truckloads of exemplary Python code into
> truckloads of substandard Python code.

In Guido's own words:
The update is already serving its real purpose: showing that style is
debatable and cannot always easily be reduced to fixed rules.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2016-April/144211.html
GvR is not a fan of the automatic and compulsory application of PEP 8
conventions without thought, so I don't think he would agree with you that
a change in the preferred style automatically and necessarily
converts "exemplary Python code" into "substandard Python code".
-- 
Steven