[Python-checkins] peps: Use Guido's preferred wording re: line length

[Terry Reedy]

On 8/2/2013 10:26 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> On 3 Aug 2013 11:07, "Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu
> <mailto:tjreedy at udel.edu>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 8/2/2013 6:19 AM, nick.coghlan wrote:
>  >
>  >> +The Python standard library is conservative and requires limiting
>  >> +lines to 79 characters (and docstrings/comments to 72).
>  >
>  >
>  > If you (and Guido) mean that as a hard limit, then patchcheck should
> check line lengths as well as trailing whitespace.
>
> That raises issues when modifying existing non-compliant files, because
> it removes the human judgement on whether a non-compliance is worth
> fixing or not.

I meant tools/scripts/patchcheck.py, not the pre-commit hook. The check 
would inform (especially for old files) or remind (for new files) so 
that judgment could be applied.