On Apr 4, 6:36 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Although PEP 8 is only compulsory for the Python standard library, many > users like to stick to PEP 8 for external projects. > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/ > > http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/layout-imperative-in-functional.htmlith > perhaps one glaring exception: many people hate, or ignore, PEP 8's > recommendation to limit lines to 80 characters. (Strictly speaking, 79 > characters.) > > Here is a good defence of 80 char lines: > > http://wrongsideofmemphis.com/2013/03/25/80-chars-per-line-is-great/
The exchange on hacker news linked from there makes for a nice read -- tnx. I had a blog article http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/layout-imperative-in-functional.html on this subject. It started from a python discussion, though its more relevant to Haskell. What does not so easily come out there is that the wide-line code samples I posted which read ok to me were not to some readers. So I moved it to gist, but even there some would get the horizontal scroll bar. Reading it 'raw' seems to remove the problem -- though I can hardly promise that for all devices. So from this POV the point that was made was opposite to the one I was trying to make =) The discussion that followed on haskell cafe http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-October/104224.html made a number of interesting points about pros and cons of long lines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
