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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu May 21 03:09:21 CEST 2009


Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> My suggestion is to just bump it up a bit (perhaps to 100 chars).

If there's anything I'd suggest changing, it would be to
reduce the recommended indentation from 4 chars to 2.
That's what I use internally for my own code, and it
seems to be a good compromise between readability and
eating up too much width with indentation.

-- 
Greg



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