Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated
Ben Finney
ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Mon Apr 18 18:58:44 EDT 2016
Pete Forman <petef4+usenet at gmail.com> writes:
> Why is it that Python continues to use a fixed width font
I think you know this isn't true.
> and therefore specifies the maximum line width as a character count?
and that this “therefore” is not justified by that.
You've seen elsewhere the justification for *having* a maximum line
width (primarily because of limits on human cognition of lines of text).
As for what the limit *is*, it's much better to have an easy-to-apply
and easy-to-measure rule, because consistent application is important
for such a guide.
Counting characters is objectively easy and easily comparable.
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