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

[Ben Finney]

Curt Hagenlocher <curt at hagenlocher.org> writes:

> Unless -- hypothetically -- the architect decides that all the source
> in the project will follow PEP-8 and you want to do an end-run around
> the decision because you're tired of losing five minutes every few
> hours as a result of working out how to reformat a block of code to
> best respect the 80-char limit.

As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, very often the superior
solution is not to re-*format* the same statement to fit, but to
re-*factor* the code so it's less deeply indented or does less in each
statement.

And that re-factoring isn't lost time; it's saved time when later
readers try to understand the code.

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Ben Finney