: > It's also because many people report that it's easier to read text when > it's not wider than ~75 characters.
That rule [1] is for paragraphs of prose in proportional text; code is both written and read differently. While there most likely is an upper limit, it's going to be different - larger? - for monospace text with varying natural line lengths whose visual structure helps you to keep your "place". Having said that, I use 78 characters, am rarely annoyed by it (usually by exception text), and see little benefit in breaking from such a widely obeyed standard. -[]z. [1] http://webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizontal_Motion/2.1.2 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
