Steve Bergman schrieb:
> In my opinion, Guido's 80 character line limit hurts readability for no
> good reason. (Even old, narrow, dot matrix printers can handle 96-132
> characters/line.)
>
> 100 character lines are what I target. I use more when the longer
> lined form is more readable.
With a normal screensize (i.e. 1280x1024) and using an IDE it is very difficult
to have an editing window even 80 chars wide in an acceptable font size.
I hate it when I have to scroll horizontally, so I alway break lines, if they
are too long. Luckily in Python there are many ways to do this:
1) Reconition of open parenthesis
2) Backslash at line end
3) Concatenation of string literals in conjunction with 1) or 2)
Jeff Hinrichs wrote:
> One final group question, does anyone else have issues with
> from sqlobject import *
> I didn't find a specific reference to it in PEP 8, general wisdom
> considers it bad form unless you are at the interactive prompt
I see this mainly as a readability issue. If the module has a proper
declaration of it's namespace (__all__), then there should be no suprises about
what you import (and AFAICS all TG modules have __all__).
But both forms have implications on how easy it is to read the code. If you do
from foo.bar.boo import *
and you're using names from the foo package further down in you code, the
reader cannot see, where this name was defined.
If you're using
import foo.bar.boo
...
spamm = foo.bar.boo.blub('eggs')
you will end up with many long lines, that you will have to break etc.
(the latter form might also incur a slight speed penalty because of all the
necessary namespace lookups)
Chris
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