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One really helpful feature of Spyder as an integrated development environment is its automatic syntax and code checking, which checks Python code for compliance with the PEP 8 recommendations for Python syntax. But what is codified in “Python Enhancement Proposal 8”? Principally, there are some code formatting rules that should both establish a common standard and allow for better readability of the code.

In that sense, this approach is not too dissimilar from a written or printed natural language where certain syntax rules also apply. For example, consider the code in Example 1-1 of Chapter 1 for the valuation of a European call option via Monte Carlo simulation. First, have a look at the version of this code in Example A-1 that does not conform to PEP 8. It is rather packed because there are blank lines and spaces missing (sometimes there are also too many spaces or blank lines).