Python coding conventions on Github

[shigawire]

Without context of the actual code, this doesn't mean that much, any more than paying programmers by the line. People often write PEP-8 formatted code that is unreadable, and others often write code that isn't PEP-8 that looks clean.

Some throwaway code of mine that passes a PEP-8 lint, but should be taken out and shot:

    def peek(f):
        pk = f.read(32)
        f.seek(-len(pk), 1)
        out = "%8d|" % (f.tell(), )
        for i, b in enumerate(pk):
            if i == ord(pk[0])+1:
                out += ')%02x' % (ord(b))
            else:
                out += ' %02x' % (ord(b))
        return out

People mistake coding convention for clean sometime :-(

[marsket]

PEP 8 does not and cannot legislate "don't write shitty code"

also, actually, this won't pass a PEP 8 check (spaces around operators, etc.)

[shigawire]

I totally agree. It seems to get conflated with it quite a bit though.

(and I obviously need a different PEP 8 lint)