On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Allen Li <cyberdup...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2) If you're starting a new project, follow PEP8 (or the standards for > the language you're using) to preserve CONSISTENCY.
Don't forget that PEP 8 is not the standard for the Python language, only the Python stdlib. Particularly, there's no strong reason to follow some of its lesser advices (eg spaces rather than tabs, the exact maximum line length) for new projects; if all your developers have good quality screens, there's no point wrapping all your code to 79 just because the Python standard library is wrapped to 79. That particular example is touched on in the PEP itself (suggesting 20 more characters); you could easily set a maximum of 89, 99, or 159 characters if it makes sense for your project. Consistency with the standard library in names is slightly more useful, but the standard library isn't perfectly consistent itself (eg not all class names start with a capital), and if you're spending too much time arguing about style instead of getting code written, your style guide isn't doing its job :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
