As I study Python, I am trying to develop good, Pythonic, habits. For one thing, I am trying to keep Guido's the style guide in mind.
And I know that it starts out saying that it should not be applied in an absolute fashion. However, I am finding that the 79 character line prescription is not optimal for readability. Certainly, cutting back from the length of lines that I used to use has *helped* readability. But if I triy very hard to apply 79, I think readability suffers. If this were just something that was an issue occasionally, I would just put it off to "know when to break the rules". However, find myself going to 90 to 100 characters very frequently. Now, if it were just me, I'd shoot for < 100. However, the Python philosophy includes making code easier for others to read, as well. So, I was wondering what more accomplished Python programmers thought about this. While I'm on this general topic, the guide mentions a pet peeve about inserting more than one space to line up the "=" in assignment statements. To me, lining them up, even if it requires quite a few extra spaces, helps readability quite a bit. Comments? Thanks, Steve Bergman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
