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

[Campbell Barton]

Don't think its that bad. just checked and there are ~8 or so scripts
that use spaces out of  ~180+ scripts

Agree to disagree on 79 width limit, not really interested in
following this for scripts I maintain.

Looks like we all agree on tab-> spaces though, not a hard change to
make for 2.5 then update in the editor.

On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Chris Want <cwant at ualberta.ca> wrote:
> +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
>>
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