What is the proper way to format a multi-line dict in Python

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In Python  I want to write a multi-line dict in my code  There are a couple of ways one could format it  Here are a few that I could think of    mydict      key1   1              key2   2              key3   3     mydict      key1   1              key2   2              key3   3              mydict          key1   1       key2   2       key3   3       I know that any of the above is syntactically correct  but I assume that there is one preferred indentation and line-break style for Python dicts  What is it   Note  This is not an issue of syntax  All of the above are  as far as I know  valid Python statements and are equivalent to each other

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Generally  you would not include the comma after the final entry  but Python will correct that for you

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I use  3  Same for long lists  tuples  etc  It doesn t require adding any extra spaces beyond the indentations  As always  be consistent   mydict          key1   1       key2   2       key3   3     mylist          1   hello         2   world       nested         a             1   a             2   b               b             3   c             4   d               Similarly  here s my preferred way of including large strings without introducing any whitespace  like you d get if you used triple-quoted multi-line strings    data          iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8 9hAAAABG       l0RVh0U29mdHdhcmUAQWRvYmUgSW1hZ2VSZWFkeXHJZTwAAAEN       xBRpFYmctaKCfwrBSCrRLuL3iEW6 EEUG8XvIVjYWNgJdhFjIX       rz6pKtPB5e5rmq7tmxk hqO34e1or0yXTGrj9sXGs1Ib73efh1       AAAABJRU5ErkJggg

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Since your keys are strings and since we are talking about readability  I prefer   mydict   dict      key1   1      key2   2      key3   3

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dict rank   int lst 0                    grade   str lst 1                    channel str lst 2                     videos   float lst 3  replace                             subscribers   float lst 4  replace                            views   float lst 5  replace

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Usually  if you have big python objects it s quite hard to format them  I personally prefer using some tools for that    Here is python-beautifier - www cleancss com python-beautify that instantly turns your data into customizable style

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First of all  like Steven Rumbalski said   PEP8 doesn t address this question   so it is a matter of personal preference   I would use a similar but not identical format as your format 3  Here is mine  and why   my dictionary       Don t think dict      notation has more readability      key1   1    Indent by one press of TAB  i e  4 spaces       key2   2    Same indentation scale as above      key3   3    Keep this final comma  so that future addition won t show up as 2-lines change in code diff         My favorite  SAME indentation AS ABOVE  to emphasize this bracket is still part of the above code block  the next line of code     Otherwise the previous line would look like the begin of this part of code  bad example                     foo    bar     Don t do this  Unnecessary indentation wastes screen space                 hello    world    Don t do this  Omitting the comma is not good      You see  This line visually  joins  the next line when in a glance the next line of code    btw this is a function with long name or with lots of parameters      foo  hello world      So I put one parameter per line     bar 123     And yeah  this extra comma here is harmless too                  I bet not many people knew tried this                  Oh did I just show you how to write                 multiple-line inline comment here                  Basically  same indentation forms a natural paragraph          Indentation here  Same idea as the long dict case  the next line of code      By the way  now you see how I prefer inline comment to document the very line    I think this inline style is more compact    Otherwise you will need extra blank line to split the comment and its code from others   some normal code      hi this function is blah blah some code need extra explanation    some normal code

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From my experience with tutorials  and other things number 2 always seems preferred  but it s a personal preference choice more than anything else

[python] What is the proper way to format a multi-line dict in Python?

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