[Confusion]

This is about bracing styles and your comment is about Python. That is almost a non sequitur ;)

[ErrantX]

not really - I used K&R in PHP which got me in the poor habit of compressing any code. :)

[mrinterweb]

I don't know if compressing code is a bad habit. Generally the more code I can see on a screen the faster I can understand what is happening. A good way to add visual space is to supplement the extra lines Allman style would add with comments. I hate scrolling up and down constantly to see what a simple class is trying to do.