[Python-Dev] PEP 8 updates/clarifications

Thu Dec 15 03:22:42 CET 2005

Barry Warsaw wrote:
> I've pushed out a revised PEP 8
>> http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html

Just two little things...
 Use 4 spaces per indentation level.
 This is the default for Emacs's python-mode. For really old code 
that you
 don't want to mess up, you can continue to use 8-space tabs. Emacs
 python-mode auto-detects the prevailing indentation level used in a 
file
 and sets its indentation parameters accordingly.
I think the reference to Emacs here is unneeded. "Use 4 spaces per 
indentation level" is sufficient instruction on its own.
 ...Latin-1 should only be
 used when a comment or docstring needs to mention an author name that
 requires Latin-1; otherwise, using \x escapes is the preferred way to
 include non-ASCII data in string literals. An exception is made 
for those
 files that are part of the test suite for the code implementing PEP 
263.
I think the reference to PEP 263 tests is kind of obvious.
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