On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8...@gmail.com> wrote: > Personally, I think that 80 is pretty arbitrary now, and not the best > limit. I'm more comfortable with 120-130 myself. In any case, Python > won't complain about how many characters are on a line, and that's the > way it should be. >
It's a question of policy, which is in the purview of the maintainer of the codebase. But since Python itself has a lot of Python code, the policy applied to its standard library is going to be looked at by everyone as having special status. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
