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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/12/2017 1:05 PM, Simon Küppers wrote:
> I wrote a developer Documentation Page on Python scripting for kicad, i
> think the information is best written down there.

I have no objections to this.  I could just as easily be added to the
coding policy in a separate section for Python scripting.

> 
> 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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