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

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, skip at pobox.com wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> Why not just skip the specifics except to say < 80 characters  
>>>>> for all
>>>>> lines?  Don't mention 72, 79 or any other number than 80:
>>>
>>>    Amaury> I often run "svn diff" in a console limited to 80  
>>> characters.
>>>    Amaury> Because of the leading "+", lines longer than 78 wrap,  
>>> and the
>>>    Amaury> output is more difficult to read.
>>>
>>> There will always be certain cases which present probems.  I use  
>>> "svn
>>> annotate" from time-to-time which adds an even wider margin to the  
>>> left.
>>> In those situations I either grin and bear it or stretch my window  
>>> enough to
>>> view it without wrapping.
>>
>> Yes, but svn/cvs diff is a particularly common use case.  I agree  
>> with
>> Amaury.
>
> -1. There's just no way that 78 is enforceable. At Google, sticking to
> 80 is a continuous battle, and we use 2-space indents!

At my last job, I had a hard enough time getting people to stick with / 
any/ limit!  I even saw lines > 120 characters!  Fortunately, we made  
a workable compromise; the C code could be whatever and the Python  
code had to be PEP 8. :)

- -Barry

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