Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> writes: > On Apr 5, 6:38 am, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > Yeah, but we don't live in the 80's or 90's anymore and our screens > > can support xterms (or let alone IDE widows) much wider than 80 > > characters. I'm using 140 for python these days. Seriously, who > > would want to limit him/herself to 80 characters in 2011?
A broadsheet newspaper allows a whole lot of characters on a single line, yet they still limit the width of each passage of text. The limit on line length is not only for technical reasons, but for readability. > I wonder how many people will shorten otherwise clear > variable names just to get their lines to fit in 80 characters? Not me. When the line is over 78 characters or so, I just break the line at an appropriate point. Line breaks (within bracketing syntax) are far less expensive than uncommunicative variable names. -- \ “I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much | `\ as a week sometimes to make it up.” —Mark Twain, _The Innocents | _o__) Abroad_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
