saw that today 80 Characters per Line Is a Standard Worth Sticking to Even Today https://dev.to/nickjj/80-characters-per-line-is-a-standard-worth-sticking-to-even-today-26kk
Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer http://www.pythonmembers.club | https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ Mauritius On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 08:38 Simon, <simon.borde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to propose an update to PEP8. Indeed, the 80 characters per line > guideline is, I feel, outdated. > > I understand the need for it, back when monitors were small, and everyone > coded on terminals, but nowadays, I feel like that guideline is more of a > hinderance, and that it promotes poor code. > > Indeed, people abiding by this rule tend to choose shorter variable names, > reduce the amount of indentation, and other tricks to just keep the > character count under 80. I think a 100 or even 120 suggested characters > per line count is much more realistic by today's standards. It still allow > for the code to be completely displayed, even on just half of a screen. > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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