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[Python-Dev] pep8 reasoning

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sun Apr 27 18:40:39 CEST 2014 
On Apr 26, 2014, at 12:33 AM, Janzert wrote:

>So the one example under discussion is:
>foo = long_function_name(
>   var_one, var_two,
>   var_three, var_four)
>
>and comes from http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#indentation
>
>Specifically the third example with a heading of "Optional".
>
>From my reading of the text, plus all the other examples around it, I would
>have assumed the 2 space indent was simply a typo and should have indeed been
>4 spaces. If this is really meant to show that indents other than 4 spaces
>are allowed in this situation maybe verbiage to that effect could be added.

No, I think it's a typo and should be 4 spaces.  I'll fix that.

-Barry
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