Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated
Larry Martell
larry.martell at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 12:58:54 EDT 2016
On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:
> Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>:
>
>> I have worked for many companies where you are required to get a clean
>> run of pep8 on your code before your pull request will even be
>> considered for approval. I don't agree with this at all, as I think it
>> makes the code very ugly, especially enforcing the max line length.
>
> Agh, I was with you until your last remark.
>
> A max line length of 79 characters is among the *only* rigorous
> principles I judge coding style on.
>
> It comes with the maxim that one function must be visible at once on the
> screen.
if we still had 1970's 80 character TTYs that would matter but on my
29" 1920x1080 screen it doesn't.
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