-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 22, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Aahz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> Why not just skip the specifics except to say < 80 characters >>>>> for all >>>>> lines? Don't mention 72, 79 or any other number than 80: >>> >>> Amaury> I often run "svn diff" in a console limited to 80 >>> characters. >>> Amaury> Because of the leading "+", lines longer than 78 wrap, >>> and the >>> Amaury> output is more difficult to read. >>> >>> There will always be certain cases which present probems. I use >>> "svn >>> annotate" from time-to-time which adds an even wider margin to the >>> left. >>> In those situations I either grin and bear it or stretch my window >>> enough to >>> view it without wrapping. >> >> Yes, but svn/cvs diff is a particularly common use case. I agree >> with >> Amaury. > > -1. There's just no way that 78 is enforceable. At Google, sticking to > 80 is a continuous battle, and we use 2-space indents! At my last job, I had a hard enough time getting people to stick with / any/ limit! I even saw lines > 120 characters! Fortunately, we made a workable compromise; the C code could be whatever and the Python code had to be PEP 8. :) - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBR79fB3EjvBPtnXfVAQLBNAP7BD1FG5bOjkP0iys2r6f6nK98D9XZhK3J Qm+Cjm6tmnqEv92R9rEVYOIH0KE21oGhJFliOccYZzuE0WFPk9T6KXrRIAmggBrf ZtAwcj//0dfkq/7XGWwKgx9B7BoCymyyKGo16svj/jGeBQM6dLSoKUP+Fbw6zJEF n04bAwAqFp0= =3kW3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
