[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r60919 - peps/trunk/pep-0008.txt

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 21, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Ron Adam wrote:

> Barry Warsaw wrote:
>
>> Why should docstrings and comments be limited to 72 characters when
>> code is limited to 79 characters?  I ask because there is an ongoing
>> debate at my company about this.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the main reason, but when using pydoc to view
> docstrings, the 72 character width allows for the added indent in  
> class and
> method sections.

Interesting.  Maybe because I almost always put doctests in separate  
files, I don't run into this too much.  Having an indent of 4 for  
doctest code never really bothers me too much.

- -Barry

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