Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] iotests: limit line length to 79 chars

[John Snow]

On 3/4/20 4:58 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Do we want to indent Python like C and align argument below opening
> parenthesis? Except when using sys.stderr.write() you seem to do it.

This isn't an argument to write, it's an argument to the format string,
so I will say "no."

For *where* I've placed the line break, this is the correct indentation.
emacs's python mode will settle on this indent, too.

https://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#indentation

(If anyone quotes Guido's belittling comment in this email, I will
become cross.)


But there are other places to put the line break. This is also
technically valid:

sys.stderr.write('qemu-img received signal %i: %s\n'
                 % (-exitcode, ' '.join(qemu_img_args + list(args))))

And so is this:

    sys.stderr.write('qemu-img received signal %i: %s\n' %
                     (-exitcode, ' '.join(qemu_img_args + list(args))))

(And so would be any other number of rewrites to use format codes,
f-strings, or temporary variables to otherwise reduce the length of the
line.)

I will reluctantly admit that wrapping to 79 columns is useful in some
contexts. The beauty of line continuations is something I have little
desire to litigate, though.

If there's some consensus on the true and beautiful way to do it, I will
oblige -- but the thought of spinning more iterations until we find a
color swatch we like is an unpleasant one.

--js