On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 14:08, simon.bordeyne <simon.borde...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A good middle ground would be to enforce customization of that rule in the > most used python linters. A simple setting to set the number of characters > before a linting warning occurs would be acceptable. Any linter or project that treats PEP 8 as mandatory has *already* failed, as PEP 8 itself states that the rules can be broken as needed. Of course individual projects are entirely allowed to impose whatever draconian and inflexible rules they choose on source code formatting, but please don't pretend that PEP 8 made you do it ;-) Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/