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From reading PEP-8, I get it that you should put the closing parenthesis on the same line as the last argument in function calls:
ShortName.objects.distinct().filter(
product__photo__stockitem__isnull=False)
Probably, long expressions are best to avoid at all. But if it's undesirable, how would you go about multiple chained method calls? Should the closing paren be on a new line?
ShortName.objects.distinct().filter(
product__photo__stockitem__isnull=False
).values_list('value', flat=True)
What about no-arguments methods? How to write them on multiple lines without referencing the intermediate return values?
ShortName.objects.distinct(
).filter().values() # looks ugly
Update: There's a duplicate question of How to break a line of chained methods in Python?. The accepted answer suggests a familiar from jQuery style of starting each new line with a dot. The author doesn't provide any reasons or authoritative references, so I'd like to get a confirmation on such style or an alternative.