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List:       python-mode
Subject:    Re: [Python-mode] edit-style considering empty line
From:       "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets () web ! de>
Date:       2013-09-24 6:45:23
Message-ID: 0F68651A-3AE2-4FF0-B925-84F7CD7B9641 () web ! de
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On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@online.de> wrote:

> Hi Barry, hi all,
> 
> there was an expample at
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18940719/python-indentation-with-emacs/18940836#18940836
>  
> if 1 < 2:
> print("this line is part of the if statement")
> 
> print("this is NOT part of the if statement")
> 
> 
> The OP wanted the Editor intends the second "print" to column 0.
> IMO it's possibly establishing an edit rule saying: if an empty line follows a \
> block, consider this block closed. 
> Now seeing the example below at
> 
> http://pyvideo.org/video/1708/distributed-coordination-with-python
> 
> def find(seq, target):
> for i, value in enumerate(seq):
> if value == tgt:
> break
> else:
> return -1
> return i
> 
> If an empty line after "break" is inserted:
> 
> def find(seq, target):
> for i, value in enumerate(seq):
> if value == tgt:
> break
> 
> else:
> return -1
> return i
> 
> That would allow to calulate the "else:" to column 4 right away.
> Also for me it's slightly better readable.
> 
> Question: Would you welcome such an edit-style or rather discourage?

If it's optional, and initially off, I wouldn't mind. But vertical spaces are used to \
structure code for readability, and because of that shouldn't be automatically \
assumed having semantics.

Diez
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