Python "best formatting practice" for lists, dictionary, etc
My preferred way is:
something = {'foo': 'bar', 'foo2': 'bar2', 'foo3': 'bar3', ... 'fooN': 'barN'}
aaronasterling's indentation style is what I prefer. This, and several other styles are explained in another SO Question. Especially Lennart Regebro's answer gave a nice overview.
But this style was the one most voted for:
my_dictionary = { 1: 'something', 2: 'some other thing',}
According to the PEP8 style guide there are two ways to format a dictionary:
mydict = { 'key': 'value', 'key': 'value', ... }OR
mydict = { 'key': 'value', 'key': 'value', ...}If you want to conform to PEP8 I would say anything else is technically wrong.