On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 02:55, Andrew Berg > I think the reason the idea isn't dead is because of the emergence of > new devices with small displays (tablets/smartphones/etc.) and their > increasing popularity. When writing code that is meant to be run on > desktops or servers, the 80-column limit is mostly irrelevant, but > Python running on these small devices, especially with Python code being > interpreted rather than compiled, it's convenient to edit code on those > platforms, where there is a significant column limit. >
Let me see if I understand: because there exists a possibility that someone might want (not need) to edit code on a telephone to make a quick edit to code being interpreted on that machine, _all_ Python code should limit itself to a line width that may or may not wrap on a telephone screen? Is that the argument in favor of an 80-character line width? -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
