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[Python-Dev] PEP 7 and braces { .... } on if

Skip Montanaro skip.montanaro at gmail.com
Mon Jun 5 08:00:18 EDT 2017 
On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:41 AM, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
> Barry and Victor prefer moving a brace on a new line in all multiline
> conditional cases. I think that it should be done only when the condition
> continuation lines and the following block of the code have the same
> indentation (as in the example above), and the following code is enough
> readable:
>
>         if (PyErr_WarnFormat(PyExc_DeprecationWarning, 1,
>                              "invalid escape sequence '\\%c'",
>                              *first_invalid_escape) < 0) {
>             Py_DECREF(result);
>             return NULL;
>         }
>
> What other core developers think about this?

Wow, this discussion takes me back. Glad I don't have to check out
comp.lang.c to get my brace placement fix. <wink>

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