On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:09 AM, Simon Schampijer <<a href="mailto:simon@schampijer.de">simon@schampijer.de</a>> wrote: > In general I would do what the spec says if there is no good reason not to > [1]. The example they have does not really handle all the cases, though. > Neither pep8 nor pylint does favor any formatting. So I guess we are a bit > free here. I belive PEP8's example is rather definitive: "... Make sure to indent the continued line appropriately. The preferred place to break around a binary operator is *after* the operator, not before it. Some examples: class Rectangle(Blob): def __init__(self, width, height, color='black', emphasis=None, highlight=0): if width == 0 and height == 0 and \ color == 'red' and emphasis == 'strong' or \ highlight > 100: raise ValueError("sorry, you lose") if width == 0 and height == 0 and (color == 'red' or emphasis is None): raise ValueError("I don't think so -- values are %s, %s" % (width, height)) Blob.__init__(self, width, height, color, emphasis, highlight) <div>I don't think there's any ambiguity there, actually.</div><div> --scott</div><div> -- ( <a href="http://cscott.net/">http://cscott.net/</a> ) </div>