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 #summary Style guide for Python code contributed to Melange
 #labels Contents-Draft,Phase-Guidelines,Importance-Featured,Featured
 
+Melange follows the [http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html Google Python Style Guide]; this document describes only those respects in which Melange's style differs from what is laid out in that document.
+
 The [SoCOverview SoC framework], and
 [MelangeIntro Melange web applications] built upon it, are implemented in
 Python (it is one of the programming language besides Java and Go which are currently supported by
-[http://code.google.com/appengine/ Google App Engine]).  This style guide is a
+[http://code.google.com/appengine/ Google App Engine]). The Google Python Style Guide and these amendments to it are a
 list of dos and don'ts for Python contributions to the Melange project.
 
 The rules below are not guidelines or recommendations, but strict rules. You
 may not disregard the rules we list below except as approved on a need-to-use
-basis. But note also the advice on [PythonStyleGuide#Conclusion consistency]
-at the end of the guide.
+basis. But note also the advice on consistency at the end of the guide.
 
 If you have questions about these guidelines, you can send mail to the
 [MailingListsGuidelines#Developer_list developer mailing list].
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 _Copyright 2008 Google Inc._
 _This work is licensed under a_
 [http://soc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/html/licenses/cc-by-attribution-2_5.html Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License].
-[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ http://soc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/html/licenses/cc-by-2_5-88x31.png]
+[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ http://soc.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/html/licenses/cc-by-2_5-88x31.png]
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