[Python-ideas] PEP 8 update on line length

[Rhodri James]

On 19/02/2019 16:26, Anders Hovmöller wrote:
> 
>> If it were me, I'd probably write (or would have re-written when I added
>> the type hints) that as follows:
>>
>>     def resolve_annotations(
>>             *,
>>             raw_annotations: Dict[str, Type[Any]],
>>             module_name: Optional[str]
>>         ) -> Dict[str, Type[Any]]:
> 
> I would like to point out here that breaking up a line breaks grepping quite badly. I've had to write AST-based searches to find simple usages of arguments in the code base at work precisely because of code that is split on likes like this. (This tool is available here: https://github.com/boxed/parso_utils)

How odd.  I always break up long lines like this, and I've never once 
had an issue grepping.

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Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd