On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:18 PM, BartC <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > On 16/04/2016 17:58, Larry Martell wrote: >> >> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> >>> Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> I have worked for many companies where you are required to get a clean >>>> run of pep8 on your code before your pull request will even be >>>> considered for approval. I don't agree with this at all, as I think it >>>> makes the code very ugly, especially enforcing the max line length. >>> >>> >>> Agh, I was with you until your last remark. >>> >>> A max line length of 79 characters is among the *only* rigorous >>> principles I judge coding style on. >>> >>> It comes with the maxim that one function must be visible at once on the >>> screen. >> >> >> if we still had 1970's 80 character TTYs that would matter but on my >> 29" 1920x1080 screen it doesn't. > > > There are reasons why 'broadsheet' newspapers don't have a single wide > column spanning the entire width of the page, but are divided into multiple > columns.
Nor do they have a \ at the end of each line with the following line indented. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
