PEP8 79 char max
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Tue Jul 30 10:06:53 EDT 2013
> In that gauge I would exclude indentation (you don't count the
> number of characters the margin takes) ....
I don't think anyone reads the margins. :-)
That said, I agree that code and prose are fundamentally different
beasts. Still, when reading either and you get to the end of the
line, you need to shift your gaze down a line and back to the left
margin (or the left margin plus any indentation). That task becomes
more difficult as line length increases.
As programmers/software engineers, we need to read and write both code
and text. I think 80 columns is still a decent compromise.
Skip
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