Message 195048 - Python tracker

Message195048

Author	rhettinger
Recipients	JayKrish, Ramchandra Apte, Todd.Rovito, philwebster, rhettinger
Date	2013-08-13.07:08:31
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-1 on giving PEP 8 any more weight than it already has. Automated PEP 8 checker tools do away the human commen sense component (the foolish consistency quote is in PEP 8 for a reason). Another downside is that rigid adherence to PEP 8 tends to focus beginners on the least important aspects of code quality. We would be much better-off with integration of PyFlakes or a similar tool that focus on actual semantic errors in the code.

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-1 on giving PEP 8 any more weight than it already has.

Automated PEP 8 checker tools do away the human commen sense component (the foolish consistency quote is in PEP 8 for a reason).

Another downside is that rigid adherence to PEP 8 tends to focus beginners on the least important aspects of code quality.  We would be much better-off with integration of PyFlakes or a similar tool that focus on actual semantic errors in the code.

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