Re: [ff-cvs] fenfire/org/fenfire fenpdf/importpdf.py swamp/G...

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 05:47:52PM +0300, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> >On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 04:07:12PM +0300, Benja Fallenstein wrote:
> >
> >>Tuomas J. Lukka wrote:
> >>
> >>>+    def w(s):
> >>>+  """Add a string to the output.
> >>>+  """
> >>
> >>Why newline before """?
> >
> >
> >Python convention: easier to add more text later. It's in some PEP, I 
> >think.
> 
> Not in PEP 257, at least:
> 
>     http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0257.html#one-line-docstrings
> 
>     One-liners are for really obvious cases. They should really fit on
>     one line. For example::
> 
>         def kos_root():
>             """Return the pathname of the KOS root directory."""
>             global _kos_root
>             if _kos_root: return _kos_root

Hmm, couldn't find it anywhere.

I prefer the extra newline but no "official" reason, then.

        Tuomas