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Comment by tayo42 | Hacker News Reader

> If it doesn't show up in the syntax tree, it doesn't have meaning.

Why did you use paragraphs to write your comment then? People read the code thats written.

Auto formatters support paragraphs, but they don't support I'm going to give this paragraph 2 blank lines because it's particularly important/complicated/blah.

Typographic standards typically don't, either. Fortunately, there's more than one way to convey emphasis.

Also, single functions that are long enough to contain something analogous to paragraphs are arguably not Pythonic in the first place.

For paragraph I just mean a series of 1 or more lines separated by a blank line vs no blank lines.

Are there two blank lines between these parts of the code for a reason or did the person who wrote this code make a mistake?

If that part of the code is special for whatever reason, add a comment saying why.

Oh interesting thanks! I couldn't find it in the docs before

Yeah, I don't think it's mentioned because it feels like supporting spaces between words, I’d guess. Just so fundamental a functionality it's assumed.

I think the argument is not that structure should be dispensed, or that it doesn't matter, rather that a given style convention is fungible, and we should probably all just pick something good enough and get on with it, because the code will execute regardless of whether we use " or ' around our strings.

Spend some time considering the language standards, but then ship it for god's sake.