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

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Aahz 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.

My main concern is that we have only one line length limit for  
everything.  If we want that to be 78 or 72 or whatever, okay (though  
I still think 79 works well :) but I don't see much point in there  
being more than one limit.

- -Barry

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