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| author | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2011-07-17 13:33:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> | 2011-07-23 22:08:09 +0200 |
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README.Coding: Mention that PEP8 is the standard for Python code.
Almost all of our existing code is PEP8, and virtually every other free software
project in Python uses PEP8.
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diff --git a/README.Coding b/README.Coding index 3ea9c781aa..12997ccf9a 100644 --- a/README.Coding +++ b/README.Coding @@ -16,11 +16,15 @@ style should never outweigh coding itself and so the guidelines described here are hopefully easy enough to follow as they are very common and supported by tools and editors. -The basic style, also mentioned in prog_guide4.txt, is the Linux kernel +The basic style for C code, also mentioned in prog_guide4.txt, is the Linux kernel coding style (See Documentation/CodingStyle in the kernel source tree). This closely matches what most Samba developers use already anyways, with a few exceptions as mentioned below. +The coding style for Python code is documented in PEP8, http://www.python.org/pep/pep8. +If you have ever worked on another free software python project, you are probably +already familiar with it. + But to save you the trouble of reading the Linux kernel style guide, here are the highlights. |