Don't forget to always use correct spelling and grammar, too! -Michael On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:41:56PM +0300, Vladimir Bormotov wrote: > > Hi! > > SV> I think I will tend to agree with linus, big patches suck. Can you > SV> isolate what they are patching? ie: a reget patch, a tabbing patch, a > SV> doc patch etc etc. > > You can help to minimize patches. > > just read > > http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html > http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0008.html > > and aplly style recomendation to source code as rules ;) > > > brief "python-styling": > > > Indentation > > 4 spaces for one level. > > for example, look at yum-0.8.9/lilo.py, class LiloConfigFile. > > cass declaration at first posotion. Nice. > def __repr__ - indented with 4 spaces. Very nice. > s = "" indented with one tab character. Ooops!!!! > > look below, into def needsEnterpriseKernel: > > for l in f.readlines() indented with 4 spaces, but body indented with > tab character. ;-/ > > > === styleguide cut === > Tabs or Spaces? > > Never mix tabs and spaces. The most popular way of indenting Python is > with spaces only. > === > > Please, NO TAB CHAR IN PYTHON CODE! > > > Maximum Line Length > > Guido say: "please limit all lines to a maximum of 79 characters". > PEP-8 say: "limiting the length to 72 characters is recommended" > > > Whitespace in Expressions and Statements > > NO spaces: > * Immediately inside parentheses, brackets or braces > * Immediately before a comma, semicolon, or colon > * Immediately before the open parenthesis > * More than one space around an assignment operator > * around the '=' sign when used to indicate a keyword argument or a > default parameter value > > Always put spases: > * surround these binary operators with a single space on either side: > assignment, comparisons, Booleans > > In our code we always use one space after comma. No trailing > whitespeces. > > > Comments > > starts with a # and a single space (unless it is indented text inside > the comment) > > > -- > Bor. > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke University, Dept. of Physics mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxx Box 90305, Durham N.C. 27708-0305
