On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 9:37:14 PM UTC-5, Dan Stromberg wrote: > I can easily get 132+ columns of a font large enough for my > 52 year old eyes on a 15" laptop.
Well, if you're comfortable with the long lines, fine. But be aware that long lines are poo-pooed in most professional enviroments. > 80 is actually a bit defeatist, because it discourages > developers from using more descriptive identifiers. I'm a big fan of self-documenting code. But sometimes i have to remind myself that really long names make the code harder to read. The wise find a nice balance between readability and self-documenting. And unless you're a masochist, don't look to Microsoft for inspiration! Another reason for 80 char limit is to prevent deeply nested blocks. At the PEP8 recommended four-space-indention, three blocks is about all you can get. And that's good enough for me. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list