E211.md

Pattern: Use of whitespace before (

Issue: -

Description

Open parentheses should not have any space before or after them.

Example of incorrect code:

# The space after open is unnecessary
with open ('file.dat') as f:
    contents = f.read()

Example of correct code:

with open('file.dat') as f:
    contents = f.read()

Further Reading

• https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#pet-peeves