With Python at least, it's effectively the law, or at least is defined in PEP8. PEP8 is tricky because it's technically a "style guide", but heaven help you if

With Python at least, it's effectively the law, or at least is defined in PEP8. PEP8 is tricky because it's technically a "style guide", but heaven help you if you're trying to get your code into somebody else's repository and aren't abiding its tenets. http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/