On Aug 01, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote: >I will start experimenting with 100-char limit, but I think it is still too >wide for auto-wrapped text. Maybe we should have a stronger >recommendation to keep 80-char limit for docstrings and other embedded >text. It is OK to have an occasional long line in code, but readability >suffers when you have every line close to 100 chars.
In general, long lines are a smell that the code is trying to express something too complex or is being too clever. Using various strategies judiciously usually leads to better, more readable code (e.g. use a local variable, wrap the line after open parens, don't chain too many calls, etc.) I'm not counting exceptions of course, it's PEP 8 after all! So I would greatly prefer that stdlib files be kept to the 79 character limit. I see most violations of this in the library documents, but especially there, paragraphs should be wrapped to 79 characters, and can easily be done without losing expressability. Cheers, -Barry _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
