[Bf-taskforce25] Proposal to follow PEP8 for all python scripting for Blender 2.5

[Chris Want]

+1, and I would say stick to all style conventions (spaces,
79 characters per line, etc). Having said that, even if we
do adopt this I doubt anybody will police it, so we'll
just wind up in a similar situation to what we are in now
where everybody just does whatever they want to.

I like the quote from the proposal: "A Foolish Consistency
is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds".

Chris

Stani wrote:
> I think Blender 2.5 is a good occasion to adopt the PEP8 Style Guide
> for Python Code, which is widely spread in the Python community. This
> will enhance the chance to make code more readable, make it more easy
> to share code and to collaborate. The PEP8 is the result of many years
> of very experienced Python coders (Guido et alii.) and I can garantuee
> it is hard to compete with them ;-)
> 
> This intention was already formulated in "Style and PEP-8" on
> http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Blender2.5/PythonAPI
> 
> What I like to do is, make it official and even to encourage it for
> anyone writing scripts in Blender. One of the important details of the
> PEP8 is: "For new projects, spaces-only are strongly recommended over
> tabs." (I think now both spaces and tabs are used, which will create
> confusion in the end.) It might seem some trouble now to adopt to
> this, but it will save much more trouble later.
> 
> Can we vote on this issue and depending on the outcome make the switch?
> 
> Stani
>