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Re: Python script offered as example for Action Plugin and wxFormBuilder integration

 

I wrote a developer Documentation Page on Python scripting for kicad, i think the information is best written down there. 

Am 12. August 2017 18:42:05 MESZ schrieb Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>Sure.  I was actually in the audience for that talk :)  IIRC, the
>biggest takeaway is that sometimes there are exceptions, especially
>for highly idiomatic code, and also that the 80 character original
>line length limit is silly today and something like 120 is more
>appropriate.
>
>If you have particular changes you'd like to suggest to PEP8 for
>Python style, let's discuss them.  On the other hand, we have no
>automatic code rejection because of style--it's all human enforced at
>this point, which means those exceptions for highly idiomatic code,
>when commented and explained to the committer, already get through.
>
>Adam Wolf
>
>On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Kevin Cozens <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2017-08-12 11:43 AM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>>
>>> I think PEP8 is great for us.  Let's just add a line that says "We
>use
>>> PEP8 as our Python style guide."
>>
>>
>> Before you get too deep in to following PEP8 you might want to watch
>the
>> video of a talk given by Raymond Hettinger (a core Python programmer)
>at
>> PyCon 2015. The talk is called Beyond "PEP 8 -- Best practices for
>beautiful
>> intelligible code" and can be seen at:
>>     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
>>
>> --
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
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>distract
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>>
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