[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

[Raymond Hettinger]

> Could you explain why you have so much emotion invested in this issue?

I'm mostly having light-hearted fun with it.
The conversation wasn't going anywhere
from the start.  I do find it funny that so many
think 80 is exactly the right number regardless
of other whitespace conventions or regardless
of the language being used.

I do think the OP was right on at least one
point.  I think all of us at one time or another
has seen code get mangled in attempts to
comply with an arbitrary line length limit.  
But this is the exception, not the norm.


Raymond