Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Mar 14 14:03:10 CET 2012

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Facundo Batista <facundobatista at gmail.com> writes:

>             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*,

‘and’ and ‘or’ are binary operators (that also happen to be keywords).
The description is accurate and IMO not misleading.

> not after the '==' *operator* (which is the nice way of doing it).

−1. The lower-priority binding operator is the better place to break the
line. The binary logical operators bind at lower priority than the
equality operator.

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