# PEP8 for Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pep8-for-julia/11619>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [June 12, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pep8-for-julia/11619 "2018-06-12T18:31:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![nickeubank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nickeubank/32/3878_2.png) [@nickeubank](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nickeubank)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pep8-for-julia/11619/1 "2018-06-12T18:31:46Z")

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Working on some code for bigger packages, and finding it hard to anticipate norms around things like empty before after function definitions and whether there are spaces around equal signs in function arguments (e.g. `function(arg=variable)` versus `function(arg = variable)`), etc?

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**Author:** ![mauro3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mauro3/32/292_2.png) [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pep8-for-julia/11619/2 "2018-06-12T19:32:27Z")

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A bit: [Is there a PEP8 for Julia?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-there-a-pep8-for-julia/1433)

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**Author:** ![nickeubank](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/nickeubank/32/3878_2.png) [@nickeubank](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/nickeubank)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 9:24pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pep8-for-julia/11619/3 "2018-06-12T21:24:15Z")

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haha – ok, thanks! Seems mostly about higher-level style then number of spaces in various places? Might be a great JULEP at some point after 1.0 comes out…

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**Author:** ![StefanKarpinski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/stefankarpinski/32/24_2.png) [@StefanKarpinski](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/StefanKarpinski)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pep8-for-julia/11619/4 "2018-06-12T21:26:45Z")

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That would be good. It’s hard for core devs to devote much mental capacity to formatting at the moment, but it might be good if you wanted to start thinking about it and put something like PEP8 together for Julia.