79 chars or more?

[D'Arcy J.M. Cain]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:57:00 +0200
Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel at sequans.com> wrote:
> D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> > You can extend this if there are complicated sub-calls.  Probably
> > overkill for this example but here is the idea.
> >
> >            self.expiration_date = translate_date(
> >              find(
> >                response,
> >               'MPNExpirationDate',
> >              ).text,
> >              '%Y-%m-%d',
> >              '%m%d%Y'
> >            )
> >
> > I also moved the closing brace down to align with the line that opened
> > that block.
> >   
> If this is supposed to convice 80+ chars users, that's an epic failure :)
> This is exactly the kind of layout I'm happy to not use by not caring 
> about the line width.

As I said above, this was overkill designed to show the idea.  Of
course I would never split up short calls like that in real code.

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