On 2012-10-18, Den <patents...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:06:43 PM UTC-7, Zero Piraeus wrote: > >> What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go >> >> over 79 characters? A few I can think of off the bat: > > I personally just keep typing until my statement is finished. This > is my program, not PEP's. > > But I have to say I'm amused by the whole question, and others > related to PEP8. A quick aside, the width of our roads all go back > to the width of a two horse rig. The suggested maximum of 80 > characters goes back to teletype machines, and IBM cards, and > character based terminals > > Should that really be the basis for a suggested style now?
You don't expect me to through my Heathkit H19 terminal in the trash, do you? :) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! This is a NO-FRILLS at flight -- hold th' CANADIAN gmail.com BACON!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list