On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > But when it's exactly what you need, why do > you need to shoehorn the expression into 79 characters? Seems pointless > in a case like this. PEP8 is a guideline, not an absolute rule. It's > okay to bend it a bit in cases like this.
I think PEP8 specifying a max of 80 columns is very silly. Even an old VT220 terminal could do 132 columns. My understanding is that PEP8 requires 80 columns because a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of Python developers wanted to be able to put 3 editors next to each other horizontally, without wrapping. I like to check my code with pycodestyle, but I always override that dang 80 column requirement. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list