On 3 Aug 2013 11:07, "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > On 8/2/2013 6:19 AM, nick.coghlan wrote: > >> +The Python standard library is conservative and requires limiting >> +lines to 79 characters (and docstrings/comments to 72). > > > If you (and Guido) mean that as a hard limit, then patchcheck should check line lengths as well as trailing whitespace.
That raises issues when modifying existing non-compliant files, because it removes the human judgement on whether a non-compliance is worth fixing or not. Cheers, Nick. > _______________________________________________ > Python-checkins mailing list > python-check...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-checkins
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