n00b question on spacing

[Yves S. Garret]

Hi, I have a question about breaking up really long lines of code in Python.

I have the following line of code:
log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s" %(settings['MONGODB_DB'],
settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']), level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)

Given the fact that it goes off very far to the right on my screen is not
terribly
pleasing to my eyes (and can be rude for other developers).

I was thinking of splitting it up like so:
log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s"
%(settings['MONGODB_DB'], settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']),
level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)

Is this ok? Are there any rules in Python when it comes to breaking up
long lines of
code?

 

[John Gordon]

Hi, I have a question about breaking up really long lines of code in Python.

I have the following line of code:
log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s" %(settings['MONGODB_DB'],
settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']), level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)

Given the fact that it goes off very far to the right on my screen is not
terribly pleasing to my eyes (and can be rude for other developers).

I was thinking of splitting it up like so:
log.msg("Item wrote to MongoDB database %s/%s"
%(settings['MONGODB_DB'], settings['MONGODB_COLLECTION']),
level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider)

Is this ok? Are there any rules in Python when it comes to breaking up
long lines of code?

There are guidelines in the PEP8 document:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

Check out the section entitled 'Code lay-out'.